I have both available in my area. It will take about 3 months to get the DSL installed and the cable can be done almost right away. Curious if anyone is having the dreaded bandwidth problems with cable? Anyone in a crowded area seeing slowdowns?
DSL or Cable?
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I'd certainly go with DSL. I'm now using cable, and I'm noticing that the speed drops dramatically when it gets busy (evening and night).
DSL all the way.
DSL all the way.
and DSL isn't as easy to hack(you're sharing with your neighbours with cable, so DSL will keep the pesky teenager next door out 
)
i have it and it's great
) i have it and it's great
i can download 150kb/s but i'm pretty far away from the central office. my friend next door has cable and he's maxed at 100
i have no idea how much i upload
i have no idea how much i upload
ask your friend over with the cable to check out www.speedguide.net, and download the speed up patches, they WORK. When the RR guy installed my cable he wanted to show me how fast I was donwloading, so he went to MS's site and downloaded some updates, our donwload was only 25KB/sec, he said thats a bad server, lets try another, same thing, except we got 20KB/sec on it. He downloaded the speed patch later and we were hitting 250KB/sec. I was happy
Im on ny road runner, and i dont see any difference in how fast it is at the busy times of the day. Only on saturday night do i see a tiny bit of difference.
it's a crappy page. i only got about 80k/s with it, but i was downloading some stuff from CuteMX on a guy with a T3, and the first download i made form him was at 150k/s, then i made another from someone else and it dropped, so i figured i maxed out on my bandwidth. i paused the other guy's download and the T3 went back up thats the only good way to test bandwidth, downloading as much as you can until they start to slow, then add it up
thats the only good way to test bandwidth, downloading as much as you can until they start to slow, then add it upIt depends on what you're going to be doing. If you're gonna do online gaming, there's no question... get DSL for its consistency.
If you're going to be DLin, you'd prolly want to go with cable. It depends a lot on your area tho... I had @homo in southern CA and at first I had a DL speed of about 100K/s... but then they put me on this phat router and I had a DL speed of 700K/s (I know that's insane) but @homo thought I was running a server because they're retarded and they would do a netscan on me every 3-5 minutes (a netscan basically disconnects you from the server for 20 seconds and anything you download is ruined, it fsucking sucked ass so I got off). If you want to gamble, get cable cause some people get really lucky and have a near T1 connection but I'd go with DSL.
you might try cable and then if it sucks go DSL.
If you're going to be DLin, you'd prolly want to go with cable. It depends a lot on your area tho... I had @homo in southern CA and at first I had a DL speed of about 100K/s... but then they put me on this phat router and I had a DL speed of 700K/s (I know that's insane) but @homo thought I was running a server because they're retarded and they would do a netscan on me every 3-5 minutes (a netscan basically disconnects you from the server for 20 seconds and anything you download is ruined, it fsucking sucked ass so I got off). If you want to gamble, get cable cause some people get really lucky and have a near T1 connection but I'd go with DSL.
you might try cable and then if it sucks go DSL.
I've got cable, and its awesome. The speed are usually greater than T1. The only thing thatt sucks is the 128k upload cap (this varies with company and area).
Due to the bad shape of the network in this place, I can't get much higher than 60 k/s. I'll try applying those patches from speedguide.net, since they seem to work for you.
my area is somewhat crowded with very few bandwith crunch times. (cable) In my area no question is cable better. In some areas that I know of DSL is a better choice, It depends on where you live, density, cable service, DSL services availble, etc.
Raspewtin is right, it all depends on where ya live. Where I'm at cable sucks so I have to use DSL but just across town cable is much better. @Home told me my area wasn't completely updated yet so I experienced allot of troubles and very low bandwidth in the evenings..
depends how you like it. pay more for "guaranteed" speed, go with DSL (although i've had experiences with DSL where the speed sucks for the money, or the money is too much for the speed). at home i'm using cable, and it goes fine. fast, and since there aren't too many people in my area with cable, i get good d/l speeds (up to 350 k/s or so, depends on the server). DSL at the office, and while we get the "economy package" DSL, it's rather slow. i don't remember the downloads going over 20 k/s. of course...... T3.... what a dream...
People will argue against cable because it's shared. So is DSL. You're sharing the ISP's maximum bandwidth. If they have a T3 for every 100 customers, you're not always going to get your full bandwidth (that was just an example).
People will argue against cable because it's broadcast based, and easier to "hack". Secure your system (firewall, unbind File and Print Sharing from TCP/IP or disable it alltogether) and you're fine.
People will argue against DSL because "cable is faster". It all depends on where you live. The $40 service level here in Vegas will get you 512/128 from cable and from Sprint/Earthlink DSL. $100 a month will get you 1.0/256 cable or 1.5/384 DSL.
People will argue against DSL because it's not as reliable (I've seen it). Here in Vegas, the cable company gives me 60% packetloss to the DNS servers, no less to anything else. DSL gives me an average ping of 80-120 with very, very little packet loss. Again, all depends on the area.
I've had my cable modem for over 4 years now. I've had DSL for about 4-6 months. In Vegas, cable blows. The only advantage it had here was lower install costs, but now that the DSL modem is being bundled with the service, there's no competition. And as soon as my contract is up with Earthlink, I'm going with Speakeasy DSL and running a server. That's the BIGGEST advantage to DSL. You get to pick your provider.
People will argue against cable because it's broadcast based, and easier to "hack". Secure your system (firewall, unbind File and Print Sharing from TCP/IP or disable it alltogether) and you're fine.
People will argue against DSL because "cable is faster". It all depends on where you live. The $40 service level here in Vegas will get you 512/128 from cable and from Sprint/Earthlink DSL. $100 a month will get you 1.0/256 cable or 1.5/384 DSL.
People will argue against DSL because it's not as reliable (I've seen it). Here in Vegas, the cable company gives me 60% packetloss to the DNS servers, no less to anything else. DSL gives me an average ping of 80-120 with very, very little packet loss. Again, all depends on the area.
I've had my cable modem for over 4 years now. I've had DSL for about 4-6 months. In Vegas, cable blows. The only advantage it had here was lower install costs, but now that the DSL modem is being bundled with the service, there's no competition. And as soon as my contract is up with Earthlink, I'm going with Speakeasy DSL and running a server. That's the BIGGEST advantage to DSL. You get to pick your provider.
its different in every area. in some areas the cable isp is better, in others dsl is better. since you can get cable "almost right away," id get your name on the dsl wait list, and get the cable now. if the cable is good, you can cancel your request for dsl, or if the cable sucks, get the dsl and see whats better.
depends on where you live as was mentioned before. with optimum online i get 10mbps(megabit) down and 1mbps up. I've hardly experienced slowdowns.
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