DSL and Online Racing?

oops ... I of course meant upload and download speeds -- not "link." Still need advice, though ...

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> DSL service just became available in my area. The only service that I > can afford is one that provides a higher downlink speed (768 Kbps) than > uplink speed (384 Kbps). My main interest in DSL is for online racing > -- my modem just doesn't cut it. Does anyone have experience with this > type of DSL? Will it work for racing online, or will the differing > uplink and downlink speeds cause problems? Thanks for any advice. > B Scott

DSL service just became available in my area. The only service that I can afford is one that provides a higher downlink speed (768 Kbps) than uplink speed (384 Kbps). My main interest in DSL is for online racing -- my modem just doesn't cut it. Does anyone have experience with this type of DSL? Will it work for racing online, or will the differing uplink and downlink speeds cause problems? Thanks for any advice. B Scott

All the high speed home services, cable included, have slower upload than down load speeds. I have recently switched from cable to DSL. Cable only occasionally gave anywhere near their advertised up/down speeds, and had recently become plagued with latency spikes and speed drops that made it useless for GPL. My DSL service has a bit faster down load speed than yours, but similar up load speed. It is rock solid, and great for hosting GPL. You should be able to host a full field with the speeds you mentioned. See Bart Westra's page for more details: http://www.xs4all.nl/~westrab/gpl.htm Kevin Caldwell Calgary, Canada > oops ... I of course meant upload and download speeds -- not "link." Still

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> need advice, though ... > > DSL service just became available in my area. The only service that I > > can afford is one that provides a higher downlink speed (768 Kbps) than > > uplink speed (384 Kbps). My main interest in DSL is for online racing > > -- my modem just doesn't cut it. Does anyone have experience with this > > type of DSL? Will it work for racing online, or will the differing > > uplink and downlink speeds cause problems? Thanks for any advice. > > B Scott

Yeh same here . I have 1.5mg/sec dl speed and .384 upload DSL speed. You will have no trouble running online with that speed or to host a decent size race. PassedYa

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> All the high speed home services, cable included, have slower upload than > down load speeds. I have recently switched from cable to DSL. Cable only > occasionally gave anywhere near their advertised up/down speeds, and had > recently become plagued with latency spikes and speed drops that made it > useless for GPL. > My DSL service has a bit faster down load speed than yours, but similar up > load speed. It is rock solid, and great for hosting GPL. You should be able > to host a full field with the speeds you mentioned. See Bart Westra's page > for more details: > http://www.xs4all.nl/~westrab/gpl.htm > Kevin Caldwell > Calgary, Canada > > oops ... I of course meant upload and download speeds -- not "link." > Still > > need advice, though ... > > > DSL service just became available in my area. The only service that I > > > can afford is one that provides a higher downlink speed (768 Kbps) than > > > uplink speed (384 Kbps). My main interest in DSL is for online racing > > > -- my modem just doesn't cut it. Does anyone have experience with this > > > type of DSL? Will it work for racing online, or will the differing > > > uplink and downlink speeds cause problems? Thanks for any advice. > > > B Scott

> All the high speed home services, cable included, have slower upload than > down load speeds. This is simply not true. ADSL (Asynchronous DSL) has differing download/upload speeds; however, SDSL (Synchronous Digital Subcriber Line... and also known as XpressDSL) has the same (synchronous) download/upload speeds. I recently upgraded from 56K dialup to 768Kbps SDSL, which means my download AND upload is 768 kilo-bits per second (notice it's bits, not bytes... many people say this incorrectly). Needless to say the equal high rate for download and upload makes for excellent hosting capabilities! The down-side is that the SDSL offerings don't get as high of download speed as ADSL or cable offer. But for my purposes, I'd rather have a smooth race online than download files quicker... :-) Dave Ericson MomoBoy online JDB Racing

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:18:01 -0500, "David R. Ericson"

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>> All the high speed home services, cable included, have slower upload than >> down load speeds. >This is simply not true. ADSL (Asynchronous DSL) has differing download/upload >speeds; however, SDSL (Synchronous Digital Subcriber Line... and also known as >XpressDSL) has the same (synchronous) download/upload speeds. I recently >upgraded from 56K dialup to 768Kbps SDSL, which means my download AND upload is >768 kilo-bits per second (notice it's bits, not bytes... many people say this >incorrectly). Needless to say the equal high rate for download and upload >makes for excellent hosting capabilities! The down-side is that the SDSL >offerings don't get as high of download speed as ADSL or cable offer. But for >my purposes, I'd rather have a smooth race online than download files >quicker... :-) >Dave Ericson >MomoBoy online >JDB Racing

I agree. How much is your SDSL? Where are you? Brian

Brian, I am 20 miles north of Pittsburgh, PA in a town called Gibsonia. My phone company is North Pittsburgh Telephone Company, and my ISP is Stargate Industries. I paid $100 in order for NPTCO to program SDSL(XpressDSL) on my line and for the modem (Paradyne MVL modem). I saved the $95 modem/network card installation fee by installing them myself. I bought the network card seperately (less than $25). Stargate waived their $25 setup fee (since I was already a Stargate customer). NPTCO charges $39.95/mo for the SDSL service, and Stargate charges an additional $10/mo for internet account (waived the $10 fee for the first 3 months). Summary... $100 setup, $39.95/mo for first 3 months, $49.95/mo thereafter. I recently upgraded my home network from a 10Mbps Hub/Nics to Fast Ethernet Switch (100Mbps, no bandwidth sharing) and Nics. I use W98 ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) over TCP/IP and it works very well. Only thing I'm worried about at this point is hackers getting into my network. I've read somewhere that I can share files over NetBui (instead of TCP/IP) and have a little more security on my internal machines, but short of installing a firewall of some sort I don't know how else to prevent hackers. Regards, Dave Ericson MomoBoy online JDB Racing

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> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:18:01 -0500, "David R. Ericson" > >> All the high speed home services, cable included, have slower upload than > >> down load speeds. > >This is simply not true. ADSL (Asynchronous DSL) has differing download/upload > >speeds; however, SDSL (Synchronous Digital Subcriber Line... and also known as > >XpressDSL) has the same (synchronous) download/upload speeds. I recently > >upgraded from 56K dialup to 768Kbps SDSL, which means my download AND upload is > >768 kilo-bits per second (notice it's bits, not bytes... many people say this > >incorrectly). Needless to say the equal high rate for download and upload > >makes for excellent hosting capabilities! The down-side is that the SDSL > >offerings don't get as high of download speed as ADSL or cable offer. But for > >my purposes, I'd rather have a smooth race online than download files > >quicker... :-) > >Dave Ericson > >MomoBoy online > >JDB Racing > I agree. How much is your SDSL? Where are you? > Brian

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>>> All the high speed home services, cable included, have slower upload than >>> down load speeds. >>This is simply not true. ADSL (Asynchronous DSL) has differing >download/upload >>speeds; however, SDSL (Synchronous Digital Subcriber Line... and also known >as >>XpressDSL) has the same (synchronous) download/upload speeds. I recently >>upgraded from 56K dialup to 768Kbps SDSL, which means my download AND upload >is >>768 kilo-bits per second (notice it's bits, not bytes... many people say >this >>incorrectly). Needless to say the equal high rate for download and upload >>makes for excellent hosting capabilities! The down-side is that the SDSL >>offerings don't get as high of download speed as ADSL or cable offer. But >for >>my purposes, I'd rather have a smooth race online than download files >>quicker... :-) >>Dave Ericson >>MomoBoy online >>JDB Racing >I agree. How much is your SDSL? Where are you? >Brian

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