Hi Sheryl,
"Can I get some feedback on using Verizon Broadband compared to RoadRunner."
The benefit of using DSL broadband over your phone line vs. a service like RoadRunner through your cable TV connection is primarily one of having a dedicated connection. The DSL connection is specific to you and isn't shared with any others while a broadband service over cable is not. While you may not notice much difference in speed, cable broadband can fluctuate as more cable users fire up their computers and come on line, trying to all use the same "pipe" so to speak at the same time. So at peak times of the day, your speed on the Internet using a cable connection can get slower.
Having had both at different time - with little or no problems overall, I prefer the DSL connection. Speeds don't fluctuate and the service is completely dedicated to my computer without sharing with others. Your only other consideration of course would be price and your usage. If concern about speed at various times of the day is not important to you, then price will probably be your biggest factor.
Hope that helps...
Win
Win...that is not completely accurate. I just spoke to a Verizon rep about their FIOS fiber optic service which will FINALLY be available in my area next month. FIOS is the ONLY service that provides dedicated speed. other than the much more costly T-1 or T-3 connections.
I have both a DSL and a Cable internet service and I can tell you that the cable services is by far faster than the DSL service (even though I have the fastest available DLS download speed). One of the reasons that DSL is the weaker of the two choices between regular cable or phone-line based DSL is because it is much more sensitive to distance between the phone company's router and your end point. For example, my end point for DSL is 11,000 feet from the connection to the phone company's network so my maximum connection speed is not so good. I also suffer from a substantial degradation in speed on my cable connection thru Bright House because it is further from the connection to their network but the speed on it is much higher.
The speed of my DSL connection is 768/1500 meaning I can receive up to 1.5 mega bits of data per second and I can send up to 716 kilo bits of data per second. Although much faster than the DSL connection the cable speed is not anywhere near the 15 megabits per second quoted by the cable company. It also seems to fluctuate much more during the day than the connection speed for DSL. But that may be just because the speed of the connection is 10 times (rated speed) of the DSL connection I have.
With the \fiber (FIOS) connection my speed will be increased to 30 megabits per second in BOTH directions...and that is a true dedicated speed like a T-1 connection (except the T-1 connection is about 12 times as expensive and provides only 5% of the band width.
For most people in most situations the DSL speed will be totally acceptable. But you need to be careful in ordering either DSL or Cable internet service. All of the suppliers offer different levels of service..w.ith the cheapest being not much better than a dial up connection over your phone line. The only time you really have to worry about shared versus dedicated service is if you have very demanding requirements...like operating a remotely accessed database or other "power user" type application.
Hope this helps...
Steve Ervin
24Seven Marketing Solution
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