NetZero

Charlie Self · 2004-06-23T16:10:56+00:00

For some reason, my Internet connection in Bedford is half the speed it used tobe: 28.8 instead of 56K. Right now, no DSL from anyone. No cable, either, yet.Satellite, yes. But I'm truly not up for a $600 equipment investment, plus amonthly dish access charge of at least $40.I ran across a thing called NetZero, and am considering their "high speed" dialup. Supposedly 5 times as fast as my current speed, which is still lousy,but...Is anyone using this service? If so, what kind of results have you had, howhappy are you with it, does it make NG access easy or difficult?Charlie Self"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gaveit to." Dorothy Parker

NetZero

Jun 23, 2004 43 Replies

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patriarch 22 years ago

snipped-for-privacy@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) wrote in news:7e1fa$40da86be$44a75e7a$ snipped-for-privacy@msgid.meganewsservers.com:

And among other things, these loading coils need to be removed in order for DSL to work. Necessary, generally speaking, but not sufficient. Distance has to be right. No 'bridge taps'. No other equipment in the lines, often used to solve other problems.

Getting DSL to work in the first place took a lot of very talented engineers.

And some of them are pretty good woodworkers (he says, trying to bring some topicality to the thread again.)

Hope the cable modem works well for you, Dave.

Patriarch

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AArDvarK 22 years ago

And another dillusion about netzero on the "5x" faster thing is it makes one think that also means the speeds of software downloading, nope. same as

56k and slower. I got cable.

Alex

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xrongor 22 years ago

just for the sake of argument, did you use the same phone cord you were using before? if you tried it it right where it comes to the house, with two different phone cords, with all the rest of the house wiring disconnected and only the one connection going to the modem, i think you can be sure its not inside. if you only used one phone cord i think that cord is still suspect..

randy

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xrongor 22 years ago

*multiplexed*

ok, this makes sense. you didnt say you had a multiplexer.

randy

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