So I guess cable internet still sucks?

[maddogchen]

i have comcast cable. comcast sucks.

 

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: Insomniator
Years, years ago, people would say that cable isn't as good as advertised because you were sharing the line with everyone else in the neighborhood.. so I was happy with slow, but steady Verizon DSL (728/128 at the time). We eventually upped to faster Verizon DSL and it's still fine.

So here at college DSL isnt available so we got cablevision cable internet (3meg/728 i think) and any time from noon-10, the internet is slow and my ping is 200+ online. In off-peak hours, its fast and i get 5 ping in some servers.

So basically cable still sucks? Or is it just cablevision that sucks? Give me medium speed guaranteed over garbage 90% of time any day.

I have optimum cable through cablevision and have no problems whatsoever. It might be because I live in the ghetto where no one here can afford service, and probably share with very few people.

 

[jlee]

I have TW Roadrunner. It's fast - I haven't noticed any times in which it's significantly slower than others. Then again, I don't work a 'normal' schedule, so my peak usage times are probably different than everyone else's.

 

[Fritzo]

It's true to a point. With DSL, it's a dedicated connection, but still being shared when you get to the ATM (the source of the bandwidth).

Cable has a shared connection before the bandwidth point because everyone's signal goes over the same cable on the pole (everyone has a separate circuit with a phone line).

SO, if you're in an area with very high usage, yes, your speed on cable will be affected. If you're in a low density area, it will be as good or better than DSL.

DSL generally has better ping times overall because of this, but if your DSL circuit is in interleaved mode to deal with errors/loop length, then your gaming may stink.

(I do this kind of thing for a living )

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
It's true to a point. With DSL, it's a dedicated connection, but still being shared when you get to the ATM (the source of the bandwidth).

Cable has a shared connection before the bandwidth point because everyone's signal goes over the same cable on the pole (everyone has a separate circuit with a phone line).

SO, if you're in an area with very high usage, yes, your speed on cable will be affected. If you're in a low density area, it will be as good or better than DSL.

DSL generally has better ping times overall because of this, but if your DSL circuit is in interleaved mode to deal with errors/loop length, then your gaming may stink.

(I do this kind of thing for a living )

My ping times decreased when I switched from DSL to cable. Maybe going from a 768/128 line to a 5k/384 line helped a little..

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: CadetLee

Originally posted by: Fritzo
It's true to a point. With DSL, it's a dedicated connection, but still being shared when you get to the ATM (the source of the bandwidth).

Cable has a shared connection before the bandwidth point because everyone's signal goes over the same cable on the pole (everyone has a separate circuit with a phone line).

SO, if you're in an area with very high usage, yes, your speed on cable will be affected. If you're in a low density area, it will be as good or better than DSL.

DSL generally has better ping times overall because of this, but if your DSL circuit is in interleaved mode to deal with errors/loop length, then your gaming may stink.

(I do this kind of thing for a living )

My ping times decreased when I switched from DSL to cable. Maybe going from a 768/128 line to a 5k/384 line helped a little..

Well...yeah! I'm taking on equivelent speeds.

 

[Brainonska511]

My on-campus connection (in Chicago) is 8/8 and my at home connection (through Cablevision on LI) is about 10/1.5, which is always fast and almost never goes down.

 

[mugs]

I've never gotten less than the 7 Mbit I pay for while transferring large files, and I often get 15 Mbit.

 

[Gibson486]

I live in boston and everyone ehere has cable. It is never slow.

 

[SlitheryDee]

An old shuttle motherboard I had once had some kind of problem with its integrated ethernet that caused a similar problem. Connecting my cable modem to my computer via USB solved it. Ping times went down to where they should be and web surfing was improved immensely.

I'm not saying that your problem is the same but if your cable modem has a usb port then it's worth a try. You'll have to install a USB driver for your modem though.