Richard Bash, Review: Broadband: Worth the Expense?
TechnoLawyer publisher Neil Squillante asks:
"What do you use for Internet access at your firm — a T1 line, SDSL, ADSL, Cable, something else? How fast? How much does it cost? Which provider? How well does it work? Please reply and help your fellow TechnoLawyer members avoid costly mistakes."
I use AT&T/Yahoo to reach the Internet via a DSL modem (supplied by Yahoo). Cost is now $59.99 a month and barely worth the expense. May go back to dial-up. Broadband is not all it is cracked up to be. Lots of slow times.
Richard M. Bash
Attorney-at-Law
Anderson, IN
[Publisher's Note: It sounds to me like you don't have true broadband because there is no comparison to dialup. Before you revert, try another provider. DSL providers in particular are a dime a dozen. Also, make sure you get download speeds of at least 1Mbps in both directions (i.e., SDSL as opposed to ADSL), which I suspect is currently not the case. If you don't need fast upload speeds, you can opt for ADSL with download speeds as fast as 6Mbps. You can check your speed here — Neil Squillante]
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