Anyone get serious work done with shitty DSL?

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End of the rainbow
So I was thinking about buying a new house but it's in an older neighborhood and the only internet service available is DSL. Slow shitty DSL. I think it's like 1.5 Mbps down and 768 Kbps up. FUCK. I have 30 Mbps service now and I can't imagine I could ever get used to slow ass DSL.

It's a real bummer because this is our dream house we wanted to buy, but the whole internet thing is a deal breaker I think. And they will never bring cable or fiber into this neighborhood, I'm 99% sure of it.

Satellite is just as shitty and slow as DSL I think, so that won't work either.

Just ranting mostly, but I'm curious if anyone gets any real work done using slow ass DSL?
 


That's a tough one. You will get used it eventually, though. Within a couple of weeks you won't even miss your old connection :)

A remember a couple of years back when I was living in Greece I was forced to work with (gasp) dialup. Not very pleasant but when push comes to shove, you get the work done.

1.5 Mbps is more than enough speed for basic web browsing (i.e. stuff that we usually do for work) - unless of course, you're doing things that require a very fast connection.
 
Nah I don't think it would ever work. I do a lot more than web browsing. I don't know how much bandwidth I use daily, but it's a lot. I'm totally bummed right now. :(
 
if you use your pc for entertainment [frequent media, games, music etc.] then you will not last long with 1.5mbit.

the question i beg to ask though.... why would any business owner [min. 5 fig/mo Net] spend their hard work's earnings on entertainment confined to the same computer he'd spend the entire godforsaken week on already??

i regularly go from 100mbit to 1mbit to 50mbit and anything inbetween. i don't use any workstation for entertainment. honestly.... i can say it made me focus the way i should.

weekends i go out and do beautiful things. Real things..

putting off a house because it's internet is too slow for the newest warez == probably the worst work ethic ever.
 
1.5 Mbps down and 768 Kbps up is plenty of bandwidth for most people to get work done, unless you refer to uploading/downloading massive torrents as work.

Are you sure that is the only DSL speed available there? I have had DSL service that was faster than my local cable before.
 
For daily web browsing 1.5mbs is fine. I just went from 1mbs in Spain to 8mbs... saw no noticeable difference in my activities unless I was downloading a bunch of torrents at the same time. (most automation is on a server)


Also - if you are actually comparing Satellite to DSL, you have obviously never recently used DSL.
 
unless you want to be downloading HD media it should be fine. IE i have 2mbps at home and i just downloaded latest "Breaking bad" ep in just over an hour at 160kbps. I just download stuff in the background and i get on with my work. C
 
When you are download your upload is killed and vice versus. I have DSL as a backup internet here and it sucks balls.

Its actually has a better ping and loads pages fast but your downloading or uploading you might as well just stop working until its finished
 
Slow shitty DSL. I think it's like 1.5 Mbps down and 768 Kbps up.

Slow? I just recently upgraded to 4mbps down. 2 years before that I was on 1mbps down, 2 years before that I was on 512kbps down and had no problems whatsoever webmastering. Unless you work with huge files (videos for instance) there is no problem with that. 1mbps was more than enough to work for me, and today's 4mbps is even more more than enough :D
 
What market is it in? There could possibly be a 4g rollout within the next 12 months that would give you 5-10mbps possibly.
 
Yeah this is strictly for work - I don't play games, watch TV or any shit like that.

I don't think dollar figures are important but I run several very serious businesses and use quite a bit of bandwidth, constantly transferring files back and forth to servers, occasionally work with video, etc. I also multitask to the extreme, often with multiple transfers going on in the background while I work, etc.

This is in San Diego. I actually did more digging and found out that I could get AT&T's 6Mbps "elite" DSL at this house. I just worry that at some point it could be problematic. Even if not now, maybe in the future. For example I could change my business model and need higher bandwidth for some reason.

Decisions, decisions ...
 
If you don't watch movies, you'll only notice the difference if you have to FTP rather large files. Otherwise, you'll probably get MORE work done if you end up surfing less...
 
Cross that house off your list. In this day and age you need a high speed internet connection. Think about what the future of the internet has in store.
 
You can't get some office space with proper internet connection if you find you can't work on a shitty connection?

Also you're an internet marketer, just throttle your bandwidth test it for a week and see if you can get any work done or not.