Cable VS DSL

[smooth22]

for hardcore gaming.

Which one will give you an average better ping?

 

[DaiShan]

depends on a number of factors like how many people in your neighborhood have cable, what time you like to play etc. My friends were all raving about how their cable owns my 1.5 dsl but now they only play at 2:30 in the morning or else their ping is like 175 in CS, whereas mine is 50 all the time. they used to get 35 ping untill everyone started getting cable though.

 

[vi edit]

I think that it more or less is provider/ISP dependent, but on the whole, I would say that DSL offers better ping time.

 

[NogginBoink]

I've used both (moved from area served by DSL to area served by cable modem) and my opinion is that there's not enough difference to worry about. The technologies have no inherent differences that would make one better than the other (unless your gaming shoves TONS of data over the pipe).

It's much more dependent on the provider and the provider's capabilities.

In the end, choose whatever's cheaper/easier/more convenient for you. I don't think gaming is a sufficient factor in making the choice one way or the other.

 

[smooth22]

Here is a better way to put it, if i have SDSL and ADSL and CABLE in my area, which one would i want for best ping?

 

[Ciber]

you want SDSL then........

 

[DanFungus]

it also depends on how good your computer is:

I have cable, and when I had my AMD-K6 2--333MHZ with 128MB SIMM RAM and a Voodoo3 3000, I had pings of 90-190
With my 1.4 Athlon 512MB PC133 RAM, and Geforce 3, I get pings of 20-70.
[Miss Cleo voice] I lub you cable modem [/Miss Cleo voice]

 

[skace]

With dsl you usually get a good 80% of the bandwith you pay for with little or no packetloss. With cable you can get anywhere from 10%-300% of the bandwith you pay for with packetloss all over the charts. With cable sometimes they forget to cap you (thus 300%) and sometimes everyone in your neighborhood uses it (thus 10%).

Both have the capabilities of a good ping, but DSL usually delivers it much more dependably.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

OS software aside...

on DSL, it would probably depend on your distance from the node

on cable, it depends on how many people are on your node

other than that, a connection is a connection and ping times don't change depending on what kind of cable you have running from your house to the poll -it's the ISP.


nik