SBC DSL Express good enough for the average consumer

[essasin]

The internet connection would primarily be used for emailing, surfing, and occasional downloading. Its cheap at 20 bucks a month but the guarateed speed is at 384kbps which seems a little low. But would it be good enough for the above tasks?

 

[Kelemvor]

More than enough. The cable companies that hype their 8 meg download speeds and things like that are just blowing smoke. Most websites aren't going to be able to send you the data that quickly anyway so unuless you do a ton of P2P file transfers and majorly data intensive gaming, any old DSL speed would be plenty.

 

[essasin]

Thanks for the quick reply. I was just worried that it would not be much of an upgrade from dial up.

 

[Kelemvor]

Oh no, compared to dial up you will be flying. And compared to the really fast cable services you will notice a bit of a slowdown but not much during standard web browsing and email.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: essasin
Thanks for the quick reply. I was just worried that it would not be much of an upgrade from dial up.

Heh. Yes, it would be a hugely significant upgrade in speed and performance.

Heck, even a 144k IDSL line is a major improvement over Dial Up. This is another 2.5x faster than that.

 

[Concillian]

Originally posted by: essasin
Thanks for the quick reply. I was just worried that it would not be much of an upgrade from dial up.

HUGE upgrade.
Night and Day difference

After using 384k DSL a month then going over to a friend's house and palying around with his dial up connection you will be AMAZED at how painful it is and how quickly you have gotten used to DSL speeds.