Dial-up speed will probably not go up in the near future because the fcc limits 56k speeds to 53k max, and because 56k technology is at its peak. Greg On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 02:54:32PM -0500, Rodney Clowdus wrote: > Thanks Larry for the advice. If I move to this small town USA I would be > only about two block from the local telephone company which operates the > DSL service as well as a super fast telephone line connection that the > realtor told me about. Here in Raytown I can only get about 28k on my > dial up connection. When I used to live in a small town USA near the > telephone company I got 56k speed. I'm wondering if dial up connection > speeds have gone up over the last year or so. When the realtor mentioned > super fast telephone service I was wondering how fast can dial up > connections go up to these days. > Rodney > > The Weaving Beaver > rclowdus at kcnet.com > "Chop your own firewood and it will warm you twice." > "Weave your own cloth and it will reward you twice." > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Lawrence Baggett wrote: > > > Rodney, > > We have been using DSL service from QWEST for a year and a half > > now. I won't say we haven't had some occasional problems, but nothing > > like what poor Ann describes. > > They don't time us out ever; they don't seem to force us to > > deal with java or anything like that; my lynx seems to work fine. > > Don't take this as any guarantee, but maybe your experience > > won't be like hers. > > Good luck! > > > > Larry > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
