Whats Better? DSL or Cable?

[DJ-CHRIS]

DSL will never tie up your phone

Personally around here I prefer DSL. I am biased due to family working in this sector.

However around here in southern ontario and quebec, DSL is waaaaaaaaaay faster.

Most of my friends get under 1 meg with cable, cable shares a 30 meg line. DSL you each have your own line with quite a bit of bandwidth, and dual T3's at the CO or fiber.

 

[C.Ingram]

Its been several days since I have moved from cable to DSL. Although the download specs are lower, I haven't noticed any difference. My upload speed is higher, though. I'm also saving about $20/month.

 

[Sevoma]

It seems like you have to check out what is around you. Some people say DSL, some cable. I have only had cable so I don't know which is better in my area.

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

It does highly depend on your area

If either the cable or DSL company is run by marketing dumbasses, your going to get poor service.

 

[Blind_Arrow]

DSL , cable have sometimes slower upload. so DSL DSL DSL, that is final, no more aurguments. i have explained all thing above, still you are asking. dumb a**! and also, cable is shared, u wont be able to know who in your neighbours is a massive downloader. and even if you do. I dont think u can sue him for that, or do you.

other solutions are:

1: cut his cable (on tri weekly basis) hahaha - got Damn I have evil mind (evil vs evil)

2: threat (using baseball bat), this though wont might do any goood, as you'll be considered voilent.

 

[uzi9mm]

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 4613 Kbps about 4.6 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 563 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (main)
Test Time:: Mon May 09 2005 15:07:04 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Bottom Line:: 82X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.82 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 21.62 % faster than the average for host (rr.com)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-BAPY0VGMQ

You can't say no to that for only $39.99/month

Also sometimes I get burst download speeds of about 1.2-1.4megaBYTES a second of downloading speed for about 3-4 seconds, and than it settles around 500kb a sec.

 

[Todvader]

Ive used the two and cable is much faster, at least here in quebec it is.

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

What were you using as DSL in quebec?

And what for cable.

 

[harley3344]

ive been useing dsl for over a year now and iive never had a problem once o ever .... ive never used cable but if u share ur bandwith than maybe ur better off with dsl.... as for me i have a t1 connection and pay 50 a month... so im good

 

[uzi9mm]

Are you sure that you have a T1 connection?? or are you saying that because you have speeds over 1.5mbps?????? I don't think that you can get a T1 connection for 50 a month.