3Mbit/640kbit(up) DSL owns all cable, anywhere. Cable might be fun with fast downloads (When I had my cable, I was lucky to get 120k/sec), but DSL pwns for packetloss percentage.
I'll go back to my classic example, over a year ago, I was on a server hosted by my ISP in a city 6 hours away, we have a direct OC line of some kind from my city to it, so pings of 35 were very possible. One night stands out in my mind on the server, which was the last straw for me, several friends of mine throughout the city were on this server, all on the same cable ISP, at about midnight.. just us on the server, I had a 350 ping and somthing like 70% PL, my four other friends there had 55 pings, and something like 10-15% PL. The next day I was called tech support, becuase the same thing was happening again, and all they had to say was, "There is nothing wrong with your connection sir" (we are just stupid, and over loaded your area node).
Later on I was calling them to cancel my @home account, and I said I was switching to a local DSL provider, and the @home person said, "You know your uploads will be capped at about 12k/sec". I burst out laughing when I had to say, "Fuckin sweet, that twice the upload I'm getting now". And it was true, I was only getting 5k/sec (40kbit) on cable that should have been 96k/sec (768kbit)..
I now average 155k/sec downloads, up to 180k/sec, and 12k/sec uploads very constant. And I get about 0-1% packet loss while gaming. GG Cable. GG.
I'll go back to my classic example, over a year ago, I was on a server hosted by my ISP in a city 6 hours away, we have a direct OC line of some kind from my city to it, so pings of 35 were very possible. One night stands out in my mind on the server, which was the last straw for me, several friends of mine throughout the city were on this server, all on the same cable ISP, at about midnight.. just us on the server, I had a 350 ping and somthing like 70% PL, my four other friends there had 55 pings, and something like 10-15% PL. The next day I was called tech support, becuase the same thing was happening again, and all they had to say was, "There is nothing wrong with your connection sir" (we are just stupid, and over loaded your area node).
Later on I was calling them to cancel my @home account, and I said I was switching to a local DSL provider, and the @home person said, "You know your uploads will be capped at about 12k/sec". I burst out laughing when I had to say, "Fuckin sweet, that twice the upload I'm getting now". And it was true, I was only getting 5k/sec (40kbit) on cable that should have been 96k/sec (768kbit)..
I now average 155k/sec downloads, up to 180k/sec, and 12k/sec uploads very constant. And I get about 0-1% packet loss while gaming. GG Cable. GG.
