Thom says Broadband is technically all high speed Internet access. Probably most people use broadband when they mean cable.
DSL uses a phone line not cable.
V.
PS Now T. wants to check Wikipedia for the definition of broadband.
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What is the difference between Broadband and DSL? Is broadband always cable? Trying to figure out internet access for our new house and I'm very iggerant.
We're going to have to change our email addresses!!!! Yuck! Somehow, that seems more painful than all the address changes for snail mail.
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Thom says Broadband is technically all high speed Internet access. Probably most people use broadband when they mean cable.
DSL uses a phone line not cable.
V.
PS Now T. wants to check Wikipedia for the definition of broadband.
V is right.
DSL and Cable Modems are both Broadband.
DSL is via the phone line
Ah ha! So that explains why I was confused.
Qwest's website says DSL isn't available at our new house, but when I called they said their database was down. I really don't want cable so let's hope Qwest can do it.
Thanks all, including Mr. T.
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I think that's actually closer to three miles -- and you don't have to be that close to the central office, just to a remote off the central office. Our rural neighborhood was in dial-up hell for a few years until our telco put in a new remote (a switching box that serves a certain number of subscriber lines) within three miles of our road. Thankfully, we all have DSL now, and we can't imagine what we did without it! (We also can't get cable out here in the sticks -- we have satellite for TV.)
Emily, who works in the telecom industry
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We have DishNetwork which we can just move with us. It's been OK once we re-pointed the dish and replaced the cables. The contractor tried 3 times and just made it worse. Interesting that we could do a better job than the pros.
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Whew, just called Qwest again and they even have the fastest service available to that neighborhood.
They use the word broadband also but it is definitely DSL.
Thanks all!
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Glad to hear you'll still stay in touch out in the wilds.
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Hey SK, good to hear you're joining the wireless revolution...
It's so unfair that someone in the boonies can get Broadband here in Australia but Ian & I can't in our neighbourhood ...
I despise Telstra as they've not split the cable at our routing station..2 blocks away..
Our only option was wireless broadband!
C
Hey, I have a bunch of XC skis for sale! OK, you need to be 6'2" for them to fit, but still . . . .
I love craigslist.
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I have amiciveloci.org registered under AT&T Yahoo! domains. We'll be changing our phone and DSL service to Qwest (with a couple months overlap). Does anyone know how I can continue as owner of this domain?
Hep.
-- SK lost in the nebulous 'net
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should'nt be an issue.