I'm a quack; please write me off.
For everyone's ammusement, my first post was "Who died and made Pat Robertson relevant?".
Have a nice day.
cjhsa wrote:cicerone imposter wrote:cjh, You'll never "get it." It's not about what "we think." Most of your posts are self-evident.
Note that it's very important to pull answers out of the ether in order to appease c.i. This is the guy who was watching HD on Comcast before Comcast ever had any HD content. So I'm pretty sure his imagination is pretty active.
May I remind all of you that this was originally an information sharing site. If you ask a question about cooking, or computers, Unix, or HDTV, I'll probably be able to help you. Of course, if you go off and start posting things about me that aren't true, or say things like "never respond to my inquiries", then, I'm going to write you off as a quack.
What do you know about Comcast? You looking forward to the 6Mb increase in speed?
cjhsa wrote:LOFL.
I came in here and discredited old Pat and for that I get shat on by a duck.
Sorry, cj. Here, let me wipe that off. I meant it as a friend, really. You know I love ya. And thanks for standing up about Pat.
cjhsa wrote:People hate it when you call a spade a spade.
I only hate it when someone calls it an effing shovel :wink:
Baldimo wrote:What do you know about Comcast? You looking forward to the 6Mb increase in speed?
Not much, I've been a satellite customer for years, and use DSL at home for Internet access. I did just upgrade to SBC "DSL Pro", and saw about a 10-fold increase in speed for less than I was paying before. Went from 320Kbps to 2.5Mbps.
All I can say is use what works for what you need in your area. Satellite TV is great but if you must have cable, go for it and combine it with your Internet to save some cash and get the speed you need.
Are you using a coaxial cable for your DSL? Mine at home is coax, what we got at work was landline DSL from SBC, which truly sucked.
Landline DSL. Coax is typically reserved for cable here.
Just curious Set, but on most phone jacks there are four wires. Two are used for analog (phone) communications, one for voice and one for ring. The other two are for DSL. I'm not familiar with DSL over coax.
We beg for DSL drops at work so we can avoid the internal network providers/police.
Setanta wrote:Are you using a coaxial cable for your DSL? Mine at home is coax, what we got at work was landline DSL from SBC, which truly sucked.
For me to comment on DSL would show my bias. I work for the above mentioned company in the internet dept.
Now that you guys have kissed and made up, could we expect to be back on topic in the near future?
Hmm, I wonder if pat has DSL?
Just to keep the thread alive, DSL actually stands for "Death to the Stupid Latino", but I digress.
Socialist . . . Death to the Socialist Latino . . .
DSL only means digital subscriber line, so it can come over coax as easily as landline, and in my opinion, the service i get from the coax is faster and superior in every way . . .
Setanta wrote:Socialist . . . Death to the Socialist Latino . . .
DSL only means digital subscriber line, so it can come over coax as easily as landline, and in my opinion, the service i get from the coax is faster and superior in every way . . .
Most often DSL providers are phone companies so they don't have the means of transferring their signal off of a phone line on to a coax line.
The only thing I have ever seen that transfers the signal or translates the signal is what is called a NIU (network interface unit) that most cable companies use for digital phone service.
Don't they use fiber optics now? Some? Most? All?
cicerone imposter wrote:Don't they use fiber optics now? Some? Most? All?
On the back bone yes, but not from the road to the house.
Here in Ohio, Time Warner offers either cable, or DSL, or a package of both, and it comes in on coaxial cable. I was surprised. When my sweetiepie had a dish installed, they used a really cheap grade RG58 coax. When the TW folks installed the coax at my place for the DSL, they were using the highest standard that we used in cctv surveillance systems--RG59, solid copper core, 95% copper braid (the shield), with a PVC sheath. The reason we used that was not only signal fidelity, but low, low maintenance, which made it cheaper in the long run for us to service our customers' installations. Perhaps that's why TW does it, although it is surprising in a major corp, which probably has easily tens of thousands of miles of coax in this county (we used three miles of a special cable to run the time and attendance reader cable in one hospital alone).
Setanta wrote:Here in Ohio, Time Warner offers either cable, or DSL, or a package of both, and it comes in on coaxial cable. I was surprised. When my sweetiepie had a dish installed, they used a really cheap grade RG58 coax. When the TW folks installed the coax at my place for the DSL, they were using the highest standard that we used in cctv surveillance systems--RG59, solid copper core, 95% copper braid (the shield), with a PVC sheath. The reason we used that was not only signal fidelity, but low, low maintenance, which made it cheaper in the long run for us to service our customers' installations. Perhaps that's why TW does it, although it is surprising in a major corp, which probably has easily tens of thousands of miles of coax in this county (we used three miles of a special cable to run the time and attendance reader cable in one hospital alone).
I used to also work for Insight TW in their Internet dept. I worked for a subcontractor and we took calls for the Columbus metro area. Until certain events caused the closing of our entire call center here in CO. Investments in IT dropped and so did the work..
Intrepid wrote:Now that you guys have kissed and made up, could we expect to be back on topic in the near future?
Hmm, I wonder if pat has DSL?
Pat has a direct DSL line to God.
kelticwizard wrote:Intrepid wrote:Now that you guys have kissed and made up, could we expect to be back on topic in the near future?
Hmm, I wonder if pat has DSL?
Pat has a direct DSL line to God.
Wrong that would be a prayer line to God.
