@Home Cable or Prodigy DSL

[SqUiRm]

I dont know which 2 get. Both are available... what r ur expirences with these 2 ? And which is a better value?! HELP

 

[Lord Evermore]

For the speed/cost issue, Cable usually beats DSL. It depends on where you live though and what speeds you can get for what price. With cable, you almost never have a choice. You get service, for a set price, period. With DSL, you can chose what you can afford, but it's usually a higher price for the same speed.

Ignore anybody complaining about how cable is 'shared' and slow. The nature of it being shared is not much different than how any Internet connection is shared. The aggregation point is simply one hop closer to you than with some other connections. But the cable aggregation point can have better connectivity than other connection types (a cable hub has 30Mbps of connection to the rest of the cable network, a router for standard IP traffic may have only a single T1 to the rest of the network).

For me, I'm very happy with my cable from AT&T Broadband (formerly MediaOne). I get T1 speeds downloading on a regular basis, for 40 dollars a month. I'd have a maximum of 640k download and 90k upload if I got Verizon DSL for a slightly higher price.

 

[squirrel dog]

dsl is a better value.I have @home,which is cable.Its $40 a month.My speed is about 200kps on d/l.Many of my friends have dsl connects.Not only can they talk and surf at the same time(killer app)their d/l speeds are about 4x to mine.I will go adsl,idsl or hdsl as soon as I can.

 

[Superwombat]

I have Verizon DSL 768k down 128k up, A friend of mine has @home cable. She AVERAGES 400k per second download speed, while I am lucky if my DSL ever hits 100k, and she pays $10.00 less per month. The only reason not to get cable would be if your area is very highly congested.

 

[SqUiRm]

Oh yeah another question... whuts the diffrence between idsl and adsl an dhdsl ?

 

[konichiwa]

Ok, I'd just like anyone who's going to ask about cable vs. DSL to give us the SPECIFIC speeds that their cable and dsl providers are offering.

Anyway...I have the same cable as Lord Evermore, and I'm extremely happy with it except for the upload speeds. I don't do much uploading but I get a constant 20kB/sec which isn't all that great. I also agree totally with what he said about DSL vs. Cable.

 

[SqUiRm]

Alright sorry! My Prodigy DSL is offering - 384k down and higher and im not sure about the up... i'm not sure about the cable =( sorry

 

[Superwombat]

eh? I've never heard of cable offering a SPECIFIC speed... just anywhere in the range of 768k to 10M.

 

[charrison]

idsl -dsl over isdn 2B +D= 144/144 MAX. 18K a second.
range 40k Feet. I have it and would never go back to dailup.
Tends to be terribly expensive.

ADSL common speed 1.5m/128k slight varations on speed exist.
17500 feet max so there are lots of holes in service coverage.

SDSL 1.5/1.5 at 18,000 feet. This is more of a commercial grade product.
This is more expensive than adsl since is scales better.

 

[Spindler]

i've had @home since they first introduced the service in my area about 4-5 years ago.

at first it was amazingly fast compared to dialup, but the novelty wears off after a bit its much slower than most dsl, imho. the max i get from cable to cable is 35-40k/sec. when i connect form cable to dsl, it jumps up to 80-100k/sec.

 

[CaseTragedy]

@home caps upload at about 30k.
and i hate how unreliable the connection is due to contant "upgrades"
i'd switch in a heartbeat if not for the fact that i'm only supported by them

-c