What the fuck! i swear to god DSL is like PRP!
if theres rain in the forcast the DSL sucks dick and doesnt work, cuts out all the damn time, sometimes for hours…
it could be raining in ohio and my DSL cuts out and wont let me online, then takes about 10 mins to reconnect…
:rant:
anyone have this problem?
does Cable internet have this problem too?
i have the same problem with cutting out during rain with my Verizon DirectTV too…
Verizon FiOS internet does not have that problem, nor will it ever. Occasionally when there is a bad storm my cable TV cuts out, but it works pretty good most of the time. I have been considering Directv, but have heard very mixed opinions about it.
It’s been months since my cable was down
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I have had adelphia cable for 4 years now and it has been down maybe 2 times for 15 minutes each during that time.
cable interweb>* (for home use)
I had verizon dsl in my apartment for a year about 5 years ago and it sucked. I got every other month free because it was down so much. Verizon in general fucking blows, their DSL is shitty and their cell phone coverage is even shittier. fuck verizon
I have no problem with Verizon DSL at all in the city. I had one problem with the modem, but that was a hardware issue. I 've had DSL over 2 years now.
With both cable and DSL alot depends on where you live and what equipment is in service. DSL is delivered over copper telephone lines that have been in service for ever. Copper lines can only be fixed so many times before there are problems with services like DSL. Distance from the Central Office is also a huge factor.
Coaxial cable has been in place for close to 40 years and is starting to show similar problems. Coax can handle greater bandwidth, but for a shorter distance before it needs a repeater or a boost. Most neighborhoods have cable nods that have hundreds of subscribers running through, this is why your bandwidth slows down during peak time periods.
My parents have cable and works pretty good and rarely bogs down during peak times, mainly due to newer equipment in the nod.
I got DSL in 2001, (before I worked for Verizon) and have only had 3 service interruptions since then. One of the times was my fault.
Verizon FiOS is delivered via fiber optic cables. You have a pure piece of glass running from your house to the Central office. Being pure glass, the fiber is not effected by lightning, electricity, EMI, rain or snow.
I had cable, went to verizon DSL, and am now back to cable.
As hero states, the closer you are to the switching equipment, the better the signal. Even verizon states that DSL is only available to those withing 3 miles from the switchgear.
It sounds like you are pretty far from the switchgear. I was less than a mile from the switch, and my signal was a lot different than a family member who is a couple hunderd yards away.
Cable - always available (no signal loss in over two years), and much faster than even the best DSL package out there. Yea, it’s expensive, but to me is worth it.
hero!!! you’re acting like fiber doesn’t have distance latency either!.. plus, imagine if some dumbass construction company came into your town to put in a gas stations… they dig for the tanks and go right through copper, coaxle and fiber… which set of lines do you think will be patched and back to working fastest?
in the end, inclimate weather really doesn’t do anything for hte speed across the lines of cable or dsl or fiber… but powering the signals and routing them does! … a sat dish’s signal would be garbage in a bad rain.
When broadband first came to my area in 2000 or so I went for Adelphia cable (is was all that was available at the time) and it really sucked ass. I paid for 2 months of service and had it for almost a year. I think it worked well for a total of about 3 seconds. It was disgusting. My neighbor a few houses down had similar problems. I had gone as far as re-cabling my house thinking the problems were the wiring inside the house. So I grinned and beared it (and used my free dialup from school quite often) until DSL was available at my house. I signed up as soon as I could and in the past 4 years or so it has gone out a total of 2 or 3 times like Hero said. The speed is always consistant even in thunderstorms and lightning. As long as I have power - I have internet too. The same neighbor I was talking about stuck with his cable (due to his dad making the financial decisions) and after a few years he said it finanally got ‘fixed’. They were offering a nice discount at one point about a year ago and the speeds were actually much better than my DSL. I tried it at my friends house for a few days and it seemed like they worked it out. I switched back to cable and immediately regretted it. Within a day of having it installed, and specifically having a dedicated cable from the box to the modem installed - it cut out. I lost my connection for the entire evening and had a tech there the next day. They said it was a faulty wire that they installed yesterday! grrrr, so they fix it and all is well for about 30 minutes. No shit, it went out in 30 mins and had the guy come right back. The wire checked out fine so I called my neighbor. His was out too. It went out 4 or 5 more times that week (each time for both me and my neighbor) and needless to say I went straight back to my DSL. The speed difference is irrelevant for casual browsing. Fuck Adelphia.
We have Comcast here at work though and it’s been solid. I can’t get Comcast at my house though 
we have the verizon business dsl and it’s great, no probs and super fast.
had verizon dsl since it came out here in 99ish… damn near reliable, never have much problems with it.
comcast ftw
never had a problem with verison dsl.
There is a distance latency with fiber, but fiber can run for MILES farther than coax or copper phone lines and WITHOUT a repeater.
dumbass backhoe operator cuts coax, fiber, and phone cables. A single fiber can carry over 500,000 telephone calls and is fixed with relative ease compared to the copper telephone cable that can carry the same number of phone calls. One splice versus splicing 432 Pairs of copper wires? (A 432 pair cable cannot carry 500,000 telephone calls at one time)
Rain especially, snow, and ice significantly cripple a copper network no matter if it is telephone or coax. Telephone lines fair far worse when it comes to wet weather. Water (especially water penetrating a cable) causes electrical signals to short, go to ground, or cross talk. There is no electricity running through the fiber so it is not effected.
My verizon f’s up a little when its raining out. I wont even get into how f’n bad comcast sucked ass.
my comcast was great, u just sucked, thats all 
Fuck Verizon… they sent me my DSL kit, and neglected to put a DSL modem in it!! Fucking retards… of course it will be another 3 - 5 days until I get it.
