Anyone get serious work done with shitty DSL?

Aside from the money, I do what I do for the freedom and convenience of working from home. No way in hell will I ever waste time sitting in traffic and driving to an office. I also work in short bursts ie. 2-3 hours at a time several times a day, so it just isn't practical to be driving back and forth to an office multiple times per day.
 


If you have the cash, I have seen small biz routers that can handle 2 DSL lines. Not sure how they can be configured though, if it is for redundancy or if you can pick different paths for different traffic like having BGP in a datacenter.

1.5 Mbps down / 768 up sounds fine to me though for working, you just need to learn to beat off to Excel spreadsheets and email and stop watching all those movies. ;)
 
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 run serious business from home as you write you don't need a home DSL or fiber, you need more than one dedicated server with redundancy setup, disaster recovery and get some good bandwidth (maybe Akamai).
 
If you run serious business from home as you write you don't need a home DSL or fiber, you need more than one dedicated server with redundancy setup, disaster recovery and get some good bandwidth (maybe Akamai).


WTF are you talking about? I have like 12 servers colocated at world class facilities. I said I work from home, not that I run my servers from home lol
 
san diego has some pretty nice neighborhoods which are wired with fast internet. Perhaps you should look there until you start to find some more dream homes? Unless your dream home is out in the mountains then idk, change your business to be less bandwidth intensive.
 
Yeah I'm looking in other places, but some of the nicest areas only have DSL (RSF for example). I'm going to throttle my connection down to 5mbps or so for a few days and see what it's like ...
 
WIFI sattelite receiver + router with dual antenna ports or more ports and load balancing

leach connections of the whole neighborhood or as much antenna ports as you have lol and combine with such a router

If you have a particularly large sat dish you can leach a long long distance lol
 
Have you thought to ask them if they have a "business" package with more bandwidth? When I was with Verizon DSL (years ago) I had them upgrade me to a business line, I got 3.0mbit when the standard residential was 1.5. Also, have you tried a reseller like Speakeasy?
 
You can always pay for like 4 DSL connections then merge them. Some complicated shit, but it can be done.

Edit: ^ Look into the resellers. Here in Canada you can usually get a faster DSL connection by going through a reseller than you can through Bell.
 
How is it possible in US for not having fiber connection to most places ? lol

p.s. 20mpbs symetric line here in 3rd world lol

FTTH ftw!
 
You can always pay for like 4 DSL connections then merge them. Some complicated shit, but it can be done.

Edit: ^ Look into the resellers. Here in Canada you can usually get a faster DSL connection by going through a reseller than you can through Bell.

Awesome, thanks for the replies guys. I had no idea you could get multiple lines and merge them together. That would surely solve the problem. I'll look in to it.
 
Just wanted to say thanks again to everyone for responding. I've never had to deal with this stuff, but after doing some research I found out that a local company right here in SD called Mushroom networks offers a cool device called the Truffle that can bond up to 6 connections of any type. The device is a few grand, and the bonding service would be $200 a month to bond 4 6mbps DSL lines, but that solves my problem. That would give me about 22Mbps down and 3Mbps up (you lose a little when you bond) which will be fine. Bitchin!
 
Just wanted to say thanks again to everyone for responding. I've never had to deal with this stuff, but after doing some research I found out that a local company right here in SD called Mushroom networks offers a cool device called the Truffle that can bond up to 6 connections of any type. The device is a few grand, and the bonding service would be $200 a month to bond 4 6mbps DSL lines, but that solves my problem. That would give me about 22Mbps down and 3Mbps up (you lose a little when you bond) which will be fine. Bitchin!

Yeah, bonding! Glad you fixed your shit. It's funny that the US and Canada are living in the dark age of internet.
 
How can it be your dream house if it has shitty internet? Do you dream of shitty internet?
 
I'm on that type of connection at home. I get plenty of things done. :) The main thing is if you are Windows, increase your max half-open connections greater than the default of 10. That really speeds things up.