DSL vs Cable modem

kamkazmoto

kamkazmoto

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I currently have a cable modem and by and large I am satisfied with its performance but it is $40 a month!!! I recently saw an ad for SBC high speed DSL for $25 a month. My question is do you think that it would be worth it to change and does anyone have any experience with SBC DSL?
 
helped my step son set up his SBC DSL


Worst phucking customer service ever....

stay with your cable you will be happier
 
I can say that with DSL you are at the mercy of the pphone line pair provider. In my case it was pretty bad (verizon)

Stick with cable.
 
Cable is usually faster. Cable companies also are pretty invasive in their monitoring and privacy issues.

DSL is usually slower. It was dirt simple to set up my self, but there are installers if you need them. For my purposes, DSL was much cheaper as I don't have cable anyway.

Phil
 
Stay with the cable!!!!

I just switched from yahoo DSL back to Roadrunner and I'm loving it. The speed is faster and I don't lose the connection, ever. I was getting dropped 2-3 times a day with DSL (which may be the provider, but it still pissed me off).

One added benefit (and a HUGE one to me!)... I had to call tech support 2-3 times to get things all sorted out with the cable. EVERY time, I talked to someone who's first language was English! No hundu/kurdish/mongolian/martian accents, no asking them to repeat themselves 3, 4, 5 times. Always helpful and pleasant to talk to. If our actual installer would have been competent (and nice), it would have cut my tech calls down to 1.
 
I ordered cable broadband as my wife's cousin's husband is head honcho at Rogers Media. The installation guy couldn't route cables from the basement to the spare bedroom so we went with Bell Sympatico Basic DSL via the phone line. The kit arrived in 4 days whereas they said 7. The connection was connected at the exchange/road side box on day 6. We have been very pleased with the 288kbps connection, but the combined upload and download limit is 2Gb which we fall foul of every month. I ordered 1 MBPS Sympatico High Speed yesterday which has no limits. The cost is $30.00 CDN for 12 months and then $45.00 CDN afterwards. A wireless home networking modem is provided as part of the offer to upgrade.
 
I had SBC dsl since it first became available here , about 2001 at first it was great , the customer service was good , etc. It went downhill from there.
I switched to cable last year and am glad I did.
 
It depends more on the provider that you are getting service with. In GENERAL:

DSL is a dedicated (But usually slower) technology that will give you adaquate broadband service. Dedicated from the CO to your house.

CABLE is a shared resource (Usually much faster) technology that will give you extreme broadband service. Shared from the Headend (Usually a block or development resource.) This means that if your next door neighbor has cable and decides to download the complete video library of a large country, you may see some decline in service speed.

I currently have DSL, but if I could I would switch to cable at the drop of a hat.


Just my .02
 
I have cable and I have friends who have DSL. Cost is single greatest reason I see for their choice. Go with cable if your budget allows.
 
Go with cable, you have more options should you ever choose to upgrade(service pack that is,) not to mention its faster. Im on a premium cable service(6Mbs) and its easily the best service Ive had. Of course, If i was paying full price I would probably switch to the normal(3Mbs,) but thats the nice thing about having friends working for the cable company. :)
 
With cable and DSL the provider plays a big role.

Here, Comcast is a monopoly and I don't even know any company that will provide DSL service. Believe me, I've looked. They've gone WAY downhill since the days when it was AT&T. It's never been the same.


For normal web surfing you probably aren't going to notice much of a difference between DSL and cable. For big downloads you may miss the extra download speed. You may also have speed issues if you're using a lot of bandwidth and you have the service split between several PCs.

If you switch providers, read the fine print. You may get a great deal but you'll be in trouble if the service is bad and you have to cancel.
 
There's another prospect on the market now. FIOS. I've deployed a few for my users and it kicks a**. Some are averaging 10Meg throughput downstream.
 
Cable is soooo sweeeeet.

Last night I d/l'ed the 546MB demo of Battlefield 2 in just over 21 minutes
 
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