Cable vs Dsl

[FUBAR]

Has anyone ever heard of a law that was supposedly passed that said that cable companies cannot oversell/overload the available bandwidth?

I'm just telling you what I heard.

 

[Quickfingerz]

DSL is the way to go. A few years from now cable modems will will reach the speed of dial-up modems once again.

 

[ElFenix]

anyone know of dsl service in austin, tx? afraid the apartment doesn't use regular cable, limited to dishes, and i'm wondering whether its worth the time and effort going from a pretty constant 1Mbps connection to dsl service in the north campus area. and i'm gonna have to agree with quickfingerz, christina aguilera can really sing...

 

[Vich]

rigmah DO NOT GET RR! I know many people who have RR and it is horrible i dont want to get into RR is very very bad service. High people on nodes horrible peak usage ect.

You are in NYC So you can get 1 of the fastest DSL in the country. go to www.speakeasy.net they are the #1 gaming dsl service.

If you downlaod alot and get warez and high amounts of huge files then you will want a cable line, if you want low ping low pl and the best gaming conditions get dsl!

 

[ltk007]

obeseotron

are you on comcast @home?

Like everyone else said it all depends on the service.

 

[rigmah]

I am hearing alot of good things about cable. And i believe ill probably get RR. Im just afraid that my area will overload the nodes and ill end up with a very expensive 56k connection. Does anyone know if ROAD RUNNER caps the speeds? or is it however much bandwidth you can get?

And if it is capped are there any tricks to uncap it?

Also i heard people say that they buy the slower 384/128 dsl connection but actually get the uncapped 1500/384....is this really true?

I cannot try both services becuase both take way to long to install and id like a broadband connection soon.

Thanks for all who helped

rigmah

 

[Prodigy^]

yeah it depends on your needs.

profile of me: medium-heavy downloader, I've begun to dl lots of stuff lately, but I've got the time for it as well. I also play a lot of games online (try to when the lag isn't unbearable with my suckass ISP and 64k ISDN), so I want a low ping as well.

So, I'm going with 384/384 DSL that should give me a very cool ping and no lag, and a pretty neat download speed (40+ k/s)