On the matter of DSL

[jhetley]

Do any of the assembled sages have experience with the functional difference between 3 Mbps and 768 Kbps service to the person sitting in front of the screen? I don't anticipate a great appetite for streaming video here, or other really intensive surfing stuff, and ten bucks a month difference adds up.

Also, we're dealing with longish runs of cheap phone wiring to reach the household computer center, and I wonder how fast our antiquated infrastructure will propagate those bits and bytes.

Comments

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

The really big difference is the leap between dial-up and DSL, but I'd go for the faster speed if you can afford it . . . you'd be surprised how fond you can become of streaming video once it actually streams instead of jerking along. (Movie trailers, for example -- with broadband, you can get them on-line, and not just in the theatre. Or live news video. Lots of stuff.)