Which is Faster

this is true but you must ask which one is gayer, cable. which one is shared, cable. which one is unreliable, cable. which one can be as fast as 56k sometimes, cable. which one requires constant frustration, cable.

dsl>cable

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It depends on your area. I'm on a 3-5 Mbit cable line right now, but I never get more than 2.5 Mbit, and I'm usually at around 1.5 Mbit.

DSL here is available in a few options. You can get the cheap 1.5 Mbit which is good for 1.5 Mbit assured, or you can get the expensive 2.5 Mbit assured one.

All companies are different, cable varies greatly as well.

Some day I'll be rich and famous for inventing a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet.

Do like I do...

Get a business account...4 Mbit down/2 Mbit up...dedicated trunk line, etc...

You will NEVER have to worry about sharing bandwith. I haven't....MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.



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Right now I'm on a cable connection, DSL has just become available in my area, I haven't found out yet if its capped and if it is, what are the limits? It appears from everything thats been posted that looking for the bandwidth limits is a good reference line for making the decision to switch or not, the DSL is cheaper than the cable in my area, so thats an attractive draw towards it but I want better than what I've got not worse, the main negative of cable I've found is when everyone in my neighborhood seems to be on line, speeds can seriously drop to a crawl, does that happen with DSL? If bandwith is comparable then a shared connection versus a direct line to the distribution point seems like the better option, but is it?

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Actually I'm about 1000Yds from the distribution point, I like cable also but if DSL would be better during peak hours it would be worth it.

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heh, you said petrol

Some day I'll be rich and famous for inventing a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet.

I've had two different dsl providers. This one might be ok but the modem sucks so I only get about 50kb/sec. It's pretty bad. Plus it's MSN/Microsoft.

In San Diego I lived right by SBC so I got about 4 times that with SBC Yahoo DSL. I also had a decent modem. Nonetheless, my neighbor got faster speeds with the same DSL which really pissed me off.

I'll go Cable next time though. From everything I've seen it's faster even at peak hours. Unfortionately it's also way more expensive here.

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does 100Mbit cable sound good??

i think thats what would be nice to have.

alternativly i could get 10Mbit or 2 Mbit



but currently i'm on 56K LOL

Alltaken

I wonder why your neighbor got faster speeds? Were you both using the same modem, and paying for the same limits?





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I guess not, thats extreemely good!!


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Cable performance definitely depends on the neighborhood you live in, if your main branch connection is shared by multiple users, (in my case possibly 105, I live in a mobile home park) then performance seriously drops as more people come online and start using the internet. Then you have to account for all the people thats run their own wiring, which creates noise on the lines, which is detrimental to computer communication, which our cable company is out where I live everyday trying to rectify, but its a big job to straighten out. From what you've written you've got dream cable in my book, if I was getting what you are, I wouldn't be considering this move to DSL.

Oh yes!!! how true, I hate to have to go work on someones internet problems and they have a dial up connection, takes forever just to get connected, and if you have to restart the machine a few times, its multiplied.






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My only guess is that there was a lot of wire in a rats nest somewhere between our apartments. Throttling might have been an issue? Crappy wire on my end?

Either way I got 1.2 or so Mbps and he got above 1.6Mpps. I didn't even get 128kbps and he was way above it.

Same service.

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sweet post away buddy


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Are you sure you don't have to sign a 6 or 12 month contract to get that free month? Usually because the cable or DSL providers don't charge for the modem, they make you sign a contract that makes you pay like $150 if you cancel before the 12 months is up. That's how my cable is, and how my freinds DSL was. Look into it.

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Depends on your area. Cable runs in a 4 KM loop. Everyone on that loop shares the bandwidth, plus there's an upper limit cap on maximum individual bandwidth. Your performance depends on how many people are in that loop.

DSL isn't shared like cable. In theory that means that you'll always connect at the same speed. If you connect at 1.5 MBps the firt time you use it that means you'll always connect at 1.5 MBps. Unlike cable the time of day and the number of people sharing don't matter.

DSL connection speed depends on the distance you are from the CO (which is what that call the switching board). You have to be within 4.5 KM, and the closer you are the faster your connection.

In my area (Ottawa) I've had both. Speedwise they were comparable, DSL being faster during peak hours and cable during off-peak. I preferred cable because it was a better company. The DSL connection was down for 3 days once for an "unschedualled maintenance window" and then they put a bad dslam card in when I first signed up, so for the first week I had nothing. Plus it was just annoying to have to start up the connection every time I restarted the computer. Cable was always on.

Also cable didn't reset it's IP as fast as DSL, so it was easier to connect to my home PC from work with cable that it was for DSL.



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