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RE: DSL reliability

I'm on the far side of nowhere (you pass the middle of nowhere about 10
miles before you get here) and my BEST connection over dialup has been
33.6, same for the other 2 houses on my road.  Can't get cable (heck, I
ddin't even have trash pickup till last month!!!), or DSL.  The only
other option is thru satellite but it is way too $$$$$ for the little I
get on from home (just a little web surfing, wife and I both use it for
dialing in to work, but 5250 screens don't use a lot of bandwidth).

Mark Allen
I.S. Manager
Wilkes Telephone & Electric
A Dycom Company
Phone: (706) 678-9565
Email: allenmark@nu-z.net
http://www.nu-z.net




:-----Original Message-----
:From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
:[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Wills Mike N TC
:Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 12:50 PM
:To: 'midrange-lmidrangecom'
:Subject: RE: DSL reliability
:
:
:I live in the middle of nowhere (well, not near a town). So my
:options are limited, but at least the rent is my kind of price
:(free rent from parents <g>).
:
:-----Original Message-----
:From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@iquest.net]
:Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 11:31 AM
:To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:Subject: RE: DSL reliability
:
:
:Mike,
:
:From what I was told, I have fiber to the HOUSE and that is
:the problem, in this case - normally I would think that would
:be GREAT :-)
:
:So you don't have the cable option ?
:
:Chuck
:
:-----Original Message-----
:From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
:[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Wills, Mike N. (TC)
:Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 3:17 PM
:To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
:Subject: RE: DSL reliability
:
:
:Hmm... most of my home town (of about 60,000) has DSL service
:and there is fiber from the distribution points to the phone
:company. I wish I knew more on how it worked. All I know is
:that I only have two options: Satellite (still too expensive)
:and Wireless (if I can use it).
:
:
:-----Original Message-----
:From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@iquest.net]
:Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 3:07 PM
:To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:Subject: RE: DSL reliability
:
:
:One "caveat" there Mike.
:
:I have new phone lines that are as good as you would THINK one
:can get. But I cannot get DSL; because ? I have fiber ! I
:about died when they told me the "good news, bad news" deal
:when I tried to get DSL :-)
:
:Chuck
:
:-----Original Message-----
:From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
:[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Wills, Mike N. (TC)
:Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 2:26 PM
:To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
:Subject: RE: DSL reliability
:
:
:On other factor to add in is the quality of the phone lines.
:If you have relatively new phone lines all the way to the
:phone company, you will have better reliability than older lines.
:
:Mike
:
:-----Original Message-----
:From: David Gibbs [mailto:dgibbs@mks.com]
:Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 1:53 PM
:To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:Subject: Re: DSL reliability
:
:
:"Jerome Draper" <jdraper@trilosoft.com> wrote in message
:00f701c1f6be$92206420$0b0aa8c0@JerryPC">news:00f701c1f6be$92206420$0b0aa8c0@JerryPC...
:> In your expereince what is the reliability of running
:TN5250e sessions
:> (display, printer, and/or file transfer) over the public
:Internet via
:> DSL
:on
:> one or both sides with MPPE encrypted VPN tunnels intact?
:> Are you dropping sessions?  losing printed reports?  etc.
:
:DSL reliability depends on the vendor, mostly.  Some vendors
:have their heads on straight, don't oversell the market, and
:generally have a clue. Others, not so good.
:
:When I use my cable internet (1500/128) to connect to our
:corporate VPN (and the iSeries through that), I can expect
:about 90% reliability.
:
:When I am using my DSL (512/512) to connect to various
:services (including netshare400), I get 99.9% reliability.
:
:The cable internet is through AT&T, the DSL is through QWEST.
:
:Note: The reliability figures are "Gut Read Calculations"
:(copyright 2002 David Gibbs, all rights reverts, void where
:prohibited or mutilated) and not based on any statistical evidence.
:
:david
:
:
:
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