What do you think is faster DSL or Cable

[rperkins]

What do you think is faster DSL or Cable

I heard that cable you share with your whole neighborhood
like a network kinda thing
Please let me know what you think

[Rodie]

Originally posted by rperkins
What do you think is faster DSL or Cable

I heard that cable you share with your whole neighborhood
like a network kinda thing
Please let me know what you think

It really depends on where you live, and what DSL/cable options are you available to you. Where I live, cable costs 30 bucks a month if you buy the modem (which I did). For the same price, the phone company offers a 256K DSL connection. Well, 256 kilobit/8 bits (in a byte) = 32 KB/sec for normal download speed. On a cable modem, I will *always* get at least that, and most of the time, a lot faster.

[Hobbes]

When cable works, it is DEFINITELY faster than DSL.
But, when your neighbors get on it slows the cable down.

I got up to 170k/s on a download the other day lol...

But yes, Rodie is right...depends on where you live and what options you have available to you.

[Coolin]

I live in a place where people ask me what dial-up is. I'm gonna get DSL even though it's usually slower. In my area however, it's probably not.

[LeX]

Must've had too many users in the cable network we used to use, but I swear, a 14.4 was faster than our cable most of the time. I know this, because I had that ol' 486 back in our cable days, so I can compare the speeds. So I guess it depends on where you live, and how many members your cable company has...

[Edited by LeX on 02-08-2001 at 07:50 AM]

[FluxFX]

cable 1.5 megs

dsl 2.55

i think =\

[coolguy23]

Originally posted by FluxFX
cable 1.5 megs

dsl 2.55

i think =\



it's the other way around....cable is 2.2 megs and dsl(normal) is around 1.5....and yes if ppl are cheap and can't afford cable then u should get it....i had dsl and the max i got was maybe 120k/sec and when i went back to cable i once got 365k/sec downloading a movie off streamload....it was like 400 megs in 25 minutes!!!! :)

[Rodie]

Originally posted by FluxFX
cable 1.5 megs

dsl 2.55

i think =\


Well, there are a lot of different familes of DSL (xDSL, aDSL, and some others). And most companies offer 3-4 DSL plans. Like one might be 256K, the next step up might be 384K, then 1.2 mb, and higher. Most of the DSL plans are intended for businesses and people who will share a connection, so they tend to be fairly expensive past the first plan.

As for cable modems, under absolutely perfect conditions (and I mean you live 10 feet away from the cable office, nobody else uses the service and you are connecting to an ultra-fast server), you can get up to 10 mbps on cable. But usually, the fastest you will get is anywhere from 2-3 Mb, and 1mbps is probably about the average speed. The fastest download I ever got was 450 kbytes/sec on Napster at about 2 A.M. (that's 3.6 mbps)

[}:8) Supermoo]

Cable speed changes across different companies, different lines, different company moedels, different protocols, different everything. I don't think you can compare it with DSL unless you give examples etc.

Hehe... And I'm on Cable at apparently 10,000 (10 mega bit)/ 8 (bits in a byte) = 1.25 M/B a sec. Although I can normaly only get two 400kb/s downloads happening!

http://www.optushome.com.au/

[jw]

I am on road runner and get 450KB/sec downloads, but it really depends if the site you are downloading from has a big enough pipe to support yours. I have never downloaded from a site that has a bigger pipe than mine at any less then 250KB/sec. Thats KB, not Kb. I love it :)

[Nick]

Originally posted by coolguy23
....and yes if ppl are cheap and can't afford cable then u should get it....

It's not a matter of being cheap, in most cases it's a matter of availability, coolguy.

[Koolguy]

When downloading from a fast FTP server my downloads have reached up to 750k but they are usually at about 100-200k. My cable service seems to be slowing down a bit now though, probably too many users. The only thing that is really starting to suck now si napster which I either download at 150k or 9k.

[coolguy23]

Originally posted by Nick

Originally posted by coolguy23
....and yes if ppl are cheap and can't afford cable then u should get it....

It's not a matter of being cheap, in most cases it's a matter of availability, coolguy.

well i live in toronto...i'm sure you've heard of it and no one in my building has it....maybe they haven't even heard of it?

[Remy Canad]

I have seen dsl that was a dedicated 1.4 meg line. And for cable, now some companies are switching to the new fiberoptics they have been laying for the digital tv. If they do this in your area, then you dont have to care at all about the party line issue. And you will see a great improvement.

[Remy Canad]

I have seen dsl that was a dedicated 1.4 meg line (downstream and Up). And for cable, now some companies are switching to the new fiberoptics they have been laying for the digital tv. If they do this in your area, then you dont have to care at all about the party line issue. And you will see a great improvement.

The one prob I have seen and heard with dsl is that same prob that modems have. Line noise.

[Edited by Remy Canad on 02-09-2001 at 11:27 PM]

[coolguy23]

i actually had cable first and then my dad cut it off so i decided to try dsl in my area (cuz you know how they claim that dsl is never shared and is much faster than cable....yeah right_:rolleyes: ) and it took almost like a month to come over and give me the modem....and then i just did a test download of a file and i got around 120kb/sec then i thought that it was night time so alot of ppl are on and thought it would actually go faster later on but it never happened and when i tried uploading....that was the worst part the max was 16kb/sec and i get sometimes over a 100kb/sec ....damn so i just couldn't wait till the month was over to get cable again....well here's my story :)

[LeX]

We ditched the cable, switched to DSL, which is faster - at certain times. -_-