Pilgrim
Puritanboard Commissioner
Cable or DSL?
I'm finally getting off dial up and need to decide whether to go with DSL or Cable. The choices in my area that I'm aware of are Earthlink, BellSouth and a local company (Bayou) for DSL and Cox for cable internet.
Pros? Cons of each? i.e. reliability, speed etc. of DSL compared with cable. Has anyone here used the companies I named earlier or have prior experience with them?
I do know that if I get cable I can get rid of my landline and replace it with VOIP, getting several additional features for about the same price.
Also, is having secured email login something that's important? BellSouth only has it for business customers, whereas Gmail, a free service, has it, and I think Yahoo does too. I know Earthlink has it. I currently have BellSouth dial-up. The more I look at BellSouth's email, the more I don't like it (no way to turn HTML off for webmail and no way to report spam and/or phishing). Their spam filter is servicable.
Thanks for your help.
I'm finally getting off dial up and need to decide whether to go with DSL or Cable. The choices in my area that I'm aware of are Earthlink, BellSouth and a local company (Bayou) for DSL and Cox for cable internet.
Pros? Cons of each? i.e. reliability, speed etc. of DSL compared with cable. Has anyone here used the companies I named earlier or have prior experience with them?
I do know that if I get cable I can get rid of my landline and replace it with VOIP, getting several additional features for about the same price.
Also, is having secured email login something that's important? BellSouth only has it for business customers, whereas Gmail, a free service, has it, and I think Yahoo does too. I know Earthlink has it. I currently have BellSouth dial-up. The more I look at BellSouth's email, the more I don't like it (no way to turn HTML off for webmail and no way to report spam and/or phishing). Their spam filter is servicable.
Thanks for your help.