Poll: Cable Modem or DSL?

[novon]

Votes, Votes, need your Votes

 

[guyver01]

hmm... might wanna make a poll.. if you're going to say "POLL"..

i might be biased.. but gotta say Cable all the way

 

[gittyup]

Maybe you can look here!

 

[Raspewtin]

i say depends on the area you live in

 

[wyvrn]

DSL in my area just because Cable modems suck here. Overall, cable modems.

 

[yobarman]

Depends on where you live. But if you can, avoid Verizon and @Home. Go for Roadrunner if possible

www.dslreports.com

 

[novon]

It takes a while for the poll to go through as you post the message

 

[Fastball]

I've used both at my home and can highly recommend the cable modem.

 

[layne151]

cable

 

[Paulson]

Cable's better in most respects.

 

[Yzzim]

Depends on the speed
Who'd go with 512/128kb cable if you could get 2Mb/512kb DSL for the same price?

 

[yakko]

Just format your hard drive.

 

[etech]

From my experience, it depends completly on the services in YOUR town.

Cable in this town is fairly slow. It is capped at 320kbs. A tracert shows many more hops then DSL. But that is my cable service. The only reason I went with cable is that my phone lines are so old that the distance showed 19,500' and in any moderate wind I would be disconnectd.

It all depends on where you live, ask around your area from people that are using the two services. Do a tracert on each, do some pings on each. Goto DSLreports and run a speed test on each, then decide.

 

[pillage2001]

I thought all DSL are 1.5Mb download?? Cables are 512K right? Why would anybody wanna settle for cable if the speed difference is that huge? I'm new to this. Can anybody help me here?

I still think 56k is the fastest.

 

[jsbush]

I'd go with cable.

 

[StageLeft]

Etech is right. Its totally the services in your town. In your case the DSL seems to have a better bandwidth so I'd go with that.

In my area there are two cable providers and one DSL. The DSL is very good. However, one of the cable services is actually a tad faster, and one of them is way slower than the DSL.

pillage Depends upon provider. There is no set number either way...sometimes dsl is way slower, sometimes its faster..

 

[Viper GTS]

pillage2001:

Consumer level DSL is typically 640/272, or 256/272. Depending on how much you're willing to pay you can get 640/640, 768/768, 1M/1M, 4M/1M, & 7M/1M (and other variations in between). VDSL is typically 1.5M, I believe in both directions.

Cable frequently reaches several megs down, but is usually capped at an extremely low upload speed (128k).

As to which is better, what do you want to do with it? Are you primarily interested in a gaming connection? In that case your upload rate is important. 3M down does you no good if you're capped at 128k up. DSL typically has closer matched connections, especially in the business level packages. DSL typically has a lower latency as well, which makes it ideal for gaming.

The advantage of cable, of course, is sheer download speed. If you do a lot of downloading <COUGH>Warezbastard</COUGH> then cable would be a good bet for you. But keep in mind that you'll only be able to upload at 128k.

Personally, when I finally move out of my parents' house &amp; into broadband territory I'll be looking for a 1M/1M DSL connection.

Viper GTS

 

[DannyLove]

i have DSL and i never tried cable so my opinion here would be bias if I answered, so i won't vote nor say anything.

danny~!

 

[The LIdless Eye]

I've had both.

Up until recently, I had DSL through GTE / august.net

I moved so I had to change to @home cable modem. So far, it's much
faster on d/l. Test routines have shown 2.5mbit/s at the high end.
Actual transfer rates have ranged from 60kbytes/s to 200 kbytes/s
(including up to THREE transfers at that speed at the same time).
Haven't really checked the u/l speed, but my dsl was capped on u/l
as well, so it's probably not much different. So the slowest speed
on my cable was the top speed on dsl, thumbs up so far.

 

[Rand]

I'd say it depends much more on the ISP and where you live than anything else. But for where I am, Cable is significantly faster and also slightly cheaper.