RE: DSL reliability

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm... most of my home town (of about 60,000) has DSL service and there is
fiber from the distribution points to the phone company. I wish I knew more
on how it worked. All I know is that I only have two options: Satellite
(still too expensive) and Wireless (if I can use it).


-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@iquest.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 3:07 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: DSL reliability


One "caveat" there Mike.

I have new phone lines that are as good as you would THINK one can get. But
I cannot get DSL; because ? I have fiber ! I about died when they told me
the "good news, bad news" deal when I tried to get DSL :-)

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Wills, Mike N. (TC)
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 2:26 PM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: DSL reliability


On other factor to add in is the quality of the phone lines. If you have
relatively new phone lines all the way to the phone company, you will have
better reliability than older lines.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gibbs [mailto:dgibbs@mks.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 1:53 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: DSL reliability


"Jerome Draper" <jdraper@trilosoft.com> wrote in message
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> In your expereince what is the reliability of running TN5250e sessions
> (display, printer, and/or file transfer) over the public Internet via DSL
on
> one or both sides with MPPE encrypted VPN tunnels intact?
> Are you dropping sessions?  losing printed reports?  etc.

DSL reliability depends on the vendor, mostly.  Some vendors have their
heads on straight, don't oversell the market, and generally have a clue.
Others, not so good.

When I use my cable internet (1500/128) to connect to our corporate VPN (and
the iSeries through that), I can expect about 90% reliability.

When I am using my DSL (512/512) to connect to various services (including
netshare400), I get 99.9% reliability.

The cable internet is through AT&T, the DSL is through QWEST.

Note: The reliability figures are "Gut Read Calculations" (copyright 2002
David Gibbs, all rights reverts, void where prohibited or mutilated) and not
based on any statistical evidence.

david




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