[Techtalk] Linux and home Internet connections

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:24:13PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote:
> On 8/22/05, Mary <mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > > Well, as far as I understand, ADSL *is* a permanent connection.
> > > If you only want to surf the web a few times a week, then you're better
> > > off with dialup, probably.
> > 
> > It's potentially permanent, as in, when you connect, you're pretty much
> > guarenteed a connection that will last 'forever' (for values of
> > 'forever' that are usually about four weeks on my provider, and then
> > they have a network outage for half an hour or so). But many people do
> > not actually use it as a permanent connection: they connect when they
> > want to, or when their computer is on.
> 
> You're pretty lucky in being able to be on for four weeks. My provider
> cycles all the ip's once every 48 hours. Pretty annoying, but the
> service is otherwise good (eg. no outages for the past 6 months or so)

Well, I meant "permanent" as in "always on", not "permanent" as in
"always has the same IP address".

> > [...] 
> > Its big disadvantage is not so much that it's overkill for him as that
> > it's expensive relative to dialup. So I'd certainly reommend price and
> > feature comparisons, but not that he reject ADSL solely on the basis
> > that he won't be using it as much as it's available.
> 
> I don't know about price in other parts of the world, but it's dirt
> cheap compared to dial up here for one reason only, we pay per minute
> for our phone connections. So dialup gets really expensive really
> fast, while ADSL has a permanent connection that we pay a monthly fee
> for. I guess in a country where dialup is also a monthly fee it is
> cheaper to stick with smallband and it can't get more expensive.
> Though you'll definitely get tired of waiting for images to load
> surfing the modern internet.

And where is "here"?  The UK?
 
Kathryn Andersen
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