We did it, we went from high speed Internet to Extreme.

It might be called by a different name. You will have to find out if there is something faster then dsl and whether it is offered to ordinary people. Some of those services might be offered only to businesses.

Oh alright, thanks.

I think to get T1 up here, you have to have a business license, but I am not that sure about that. I never heard of a private person or a homeowner having that, just those businesses that have lots of employees.

It sure is.

We were glad when we no longer had to use dial up. We did not have to worry if someone phoned us and it was emergency. Now most of the time, the phone calls are either wrong numbers or telemarketers, but now the speed is so fast, we can download music files as if I were interested in downloading illegal files - not.

I noticed that when I went to Youtube, the videos lasted much quicker. I want comment on when we went from dial-up to high speed but even from high speed to extreme the speed is fast. You have to try downloading like a video or go to Youtube and watch how fast it loads.

It is twice as fast and unless you do a lot of downloads, like my husband with his radio plays, and me with my videos, photos, and music (not illegal), for an ordinary person, cable would be fine.

We now have a choice between cable and dsl, and we examined the pros and cons. With cable, we have three choices as to speed, with dsl only one and it is a bit slower than cable. With both we get telephone, but ours is digital. They have this bison as a mascot, a point against them. We also get television as they do, but we got high definition and they have so many little packages designed for the viewer, such as a family package, a children's package, an adult package, a learning package, whereas we have tiers so that someone who wants a bit out of each, can get them. I doubt that there would be action adventure with lots of bloodshed in a family package. Not that I like that, unless it is the hero taking out his pen knife and going after the bad guys who brutally murdered his family by torture.

I am perplexed by this reply. I stated that I was happy with my own speed and mentioned that it seemed worthwile in your case. Where you get the impression that I implied that you were special to have this or that I was trying to give you a guilt trip is beyond me.

My reference was to the site and not to yourself directly. If you visit a site that can transfer data at a fast enough rate then the faster connection speed is of use, whereas the majority of sites would not supply information quickly enough to improve on a 2Mb connection. Therefore if you use such a site then the benefit is made, but for people that do not visit fast sites regularly (myself included) then it would be of little benefit at all.

It all depends on where you live. It does not mean that suspenseful and her husband are the only ones to have this because they are special, as you imply. There are many here in Winnipeg who do a lot of downloading and much of theirs, unlike ours, is downloading illegal music. Unfortunately in Canada we all get charged extra when we buy blank cds to pay the artists, so that in fact is encouraging illegal downloads and they assume we all are a bunch of crooks. And my husband is not the only one interested in one sight, he goes to several including a free audiobook site, so quit with trying to give us a guilt trip and make us go back to regular cable. It will not work.

wonder why it is slow for you mine is just a tad but not bad I get to read the next post will it is posting

I wonder why. I hope that they are not allowing more households on the lan then they are supposed to. I will have to check and see how many households are allowed. It just seems that it is myLot that is having the problem. The other sites load fast unless they are making repairs and then they tell us so. It is so frustrating as I want to open as many tabs as I can, but am unable to.

We had regular cable, but then with mylot being so slow, and with my husband downloading all those radio plays, we needed the extreme or we wold have been in trouble with the cable people. Now I do not have to worry as much. Mylot is still slow.

I suppose you will get cable or dsl. I found that when we wanted a video, it was so slow and when we wanted a download it seemed to take a lot. But now it takes only a minute or a second wheres before it took hours.

Here in Canada, they put a charge on all the blank CDS for the musicians, because they think that we all download illegal music and steal from the artists. Trouble that rather encourages more illegal downloads so more are doing it. So now instead of having the extreme or faster than the high speed for businesses, they offer it to us real people. That's my theory. Anyway I live in a large city and they have to have all these choices. When we had dial=up though, we did not have accelerated and there was often trouble getting on the phone - too many connections.

We were lucky, our dial up service had a caller id that would tell us who was calling, and gave us the option to pick it up, or send them to voice mail. Even with that, we could stay online for a little while when we were on the phone, something like five or ten minutes before it would disconnect.

We had to pay extra on the phone bill for dial up service when I had it as well, but the lucky thing was it was only $13 more a month, with all the features that I mentioned before included. I didn't mind paying that really.

We get Shaw Cable. There is a light speed for the email only users, regular cable, regular cable with a power boast for those who want to download a lot of videos occasionally. Extreme for those who download a lot on a regular basis. Most of the speed is in the downloads, but I did notice a faster speed when searching the web, the pages loaded faster. Mylot is still slow, even on the fast days, but that is to be expected.

We do not get charged that much extra, maybe $10 a month, but it is worth it. Now if we were getting T1 which is mainly for businesses, I think that is $100 extra, that that would cost a bit more. I notice the difference in speed, but my husband does a lot of downloading of radio plays and he notices it. I also download videos from YouTube and I noticed that when I am watching the videos on YouTube, they are much faster and there is hardly any buffering.

We have high speed internet cable. I wonder if I would notice an obvious difference if I went with the extreme speed? I would hope so if they are charging the mega bucks for it.

I find that mylot loads slow no matter how fast the broadband is. I think they are putting too many connections there. So they have to cut down on the number of house or places allowed for one lan.

It is quite fast and my husband loves to download all those radio plays. It is offered by Shaw. The next speed is so expensive that only millionaires can afford it or business people. Mind you myLot is still slow, but everything else is fast. I do not have to wait for the buffers on Youtube. It plays immediately.

That might help. Our connection is fast, and we have lots of memory only it is not being used sufficiently. Even though I am only using one third of our memory, my Compac Presario is still crap. But we have fast internet, except for sometimes at mylot, not today, when the pages are loading slow.

We will never go back to dial up. It was slow and since we had to use the phone, we were not on the internet that much. Also at the time our sons were in university and they had to use the internet, we had to use it when they were home so that the university would think they were on it. So when we got cable, then we could use it all the time.

We have something like that. We call it Nitro. And it costs $100 a month.

We had to wait for hours when we were upgrading our Internet Explorer (that is before we got wise and got Firefox) and not to mention when we wanted a new software program. We could not afford to download that music until we got high speed. At that time there was just regular cable, and then they offered light speed for those who just want to read their email, and latter on a boaster for those who were regular like us, but once in a while they wanted to download a long program. Then they offered extreme for radio play fanatics like my husband. NO guilt there since they are in the public domain. And we love it.

There is, but is probably only available in high traffic areas like cities. I suppose in small towns you will only get either dsl or cable if at all. If we had still kept dial up, then we would worry about someone trying to phone us and we could only afford one phone line.