What ISPs do most people use?(For broadband)

[greenuns]

Hi, I'm not too sure if this question was around before. ( i hope this kind of question is not banned)
Anyways, I'm in NY Manhattan, and I'm wondering what ISPs people here use most for broadband?

Also what's the difference between cable and DSL?

 

[NialM]

I can only get cable here now, DSL will be here in a few months.

As for what is better, that all depends on the ISP (what their setup is like).

Cable - You share your connection with your neighbours. When they are not all online, your connection is faster compaired to when they are all on.

xDSL - You have your oun line. They say you do not get slow downs durring peek times. I don't beleive this as all the xDSL users still share the ISP's connection to the net.

With my connection I get up to 3.0 meg/sec. At peek times I get as low as 450 k/sec. Big diff, but still WAY faster then 56k dialup !

Go here for a better explaination of the diff between the two. <A HREF="http:// bandwidthplace.com/tech/ " target="_new">http:// bandwidthplace.com/tech/ </A>

Good luck,
-N-

The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

 

[NialM]

Sorry.....link was bad.

<A HREF="http://bandwidthplace.com/tech/" target="_new">http://bandwidthplace.com/tech/</A>

The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

 

[NialM]

Better link for diff between cable and xDLS :O)

<A HREF="http://bandwidthplace.com/tech/?v=dslvcable" target="_new">http://bandwidthplace.com/tech/?v=dslvcable</A>

-N-

The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

 

[greenuns]

thanks~~, I"ll check it out~~...

 

[Rob423]

My Friend lives in the CITY and he gets Cable Modem Service.... 56k BLOWS!! for all you who still have it, thats alittle reminder...

Once you go AMD, You never Go back!!

 

[tdean]

check out www.dslreports.com (i dont know how to add a hyperlink). i have att broadband in mass. email has gone down 3 times in two months, but other than that its been pretty good. i heard nothing but horror stories about verison.

....the birds seemed to be calling him, thought caw....

 

[jlanka]

i dont know how to add a hyperlink

See the <A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=faq" target="_new">HTML FAQ</A>

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[Cstew77]

I have At&t broadband and it's pretty good - once they got that @home snafu figured out. I love it. My neighbors must not being using too much bandwidth, cause my connection beats a T1 line.

I setup my folks with a DSL network via Earthlink. Once I got it going, the service is great. Just don't expect them to help you with your network woes - unless you buy their $150 router plus $10-15/mo. networking fee. They only support what they sell - and won't help you out with the common routers out there.