Dsl vs. Cable
 

there is growing fight were i live of which is better DSL or CABLE
I say cable

I've had both and find both comparable.

I have DSL now, so I'll say DSL. biggrin:

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Danke.

Eddie pwnz j0o!

It really depends on your location and the level of service you purchase. Locally, our cable is superior to dsl, at least from my experience.

what service do you have...
Im looking for new service but there is only one cable company in Albuqueruque

CABLE

As was said earlier, it depends on the service you purchase.

Speakeasy DSL completely decimates any competition by offering 1.5mb/768kb up/down speeds. Cable, at best, will generally give you 1.5mb/300kb - and that is at best. Quite often your upload speeds will be closer to 100kb, or even less if there is high traffic.

I have cable, by the way. Only because Speakeasy isn't offered here.

It all depends on your town/city. If you live in a town, which most likely hasn't upgraded their phone lines in 25 years... then you're best bet is to get cable.

However, if you live in a big city that keeps up with the times... you might find DSL mor rewarding.

That pretty much sums it up. Pest, you're guilty of anticipatory plagiarism!
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Cable, although ADSL can be better than both.

Cable

Heh, thats my specialty. freak:

i have used rogers cable and bell sympatico dsl and my dsl line has never gone down once, but the rogers cable was down at lease 3 to 4 time a month from anywhere between 1 to 8 hours down,

sooo i willl have to go with dsl

i haven't read this all so i'm sorry if someone's already said this, but i'd go with cable, but the problem with cable is that if lots of people are on the server it tends to be a bit laggy, but not too much. problem with dsl is... well, it's just not as cool as cable!

so, ya, cable fo shizzle...

Depends on a lot of things. If you pay more, you have more bandwidth. Goes for cable, goes for (a)dsl. Not with each company though.

I prefer cable, although my upload speed is REALLY crappy (128 kbit/s ~16 kB/s). Ping (online gaming) is good: around 50, typically (on servers near me of course).
Download is fine; 200+ kB/s on average. Maximum of 350.

To have a download speed like that on ADSL, well, I'll have to pay a lot more. Downloading and ping is what counts, at least for me.

To leech or to be leeched, that is the question. You can guess what goes for me, sorry, biggrin:

its weird here , my uncle gets almost 3 kbits download with cable while with dsl i get like close to 1.5 kbits. my dad also pays more for this shit so im stuck with dsl for a while altho cable seems better where he lives

Mine is 256k/256k (More like 180k/128k I say) And we pay $40, while with Comcast, we could get 1.5mbps/256K (I could care less about upload..) for $42.95, but my DSL (MSN/Qwest, extremely shitty) goes down at least 3-4 times a day, and at my other house, we're lucky it isn't down when we turn the computer on, so we're hopefuly changing it.

I have cable.. althogh my isp is being gay at the moment with it

just tested my cable connection..heres the results.

Details

Your raw speed was 2614008.44 bits per second which is the same as:

Communications

2.6 megabits per second
How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet

Storage

319.1 kilobytes per second
The way data is measured on your hard drive and how file sharing and FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.

1MB file download

3.2 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.

Rating

Compared to all connection types worldwide, yours is fantastic

Damn you Butch. biggrin:

I have some type of cable that gives 3000k down and 300k up... though it costs 50 bucks a month.. Its really good when you can actually find a good server, one time i got 9-12 ping on one.

here is mine... im on cable

[img]http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/bandwidthtest.jpg[/img]


I guess you can say its fast... oOo:

what site is that test located on, id like to see it

[url:5bf9a]http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/[/url:5bf9a]

I got cable and heres the results (thx to buck for the site)

1.4 megabits seconds

Communications:
1.4 megabits seconds

Storage:
167.8 kylobytes secoonds

1mb file download
6.1 seconds

My comparisons with the t1 is similar to buck. But mine a bit faster biggrin:

2 megabits per second

Run the test again Discuss in the forum
Details

Your raw speed was 2040348.69 bits per second which is the same as:

Communications

2 megabits per second
How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet

Storage

249.1 kilobytes per second
The way data is measured on your hard drive and how file sharing and FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.

1MB file download

4.1 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.

Rating

Compared to all connection types worldwide, yours is fantastic
Comparisons

your speed [img]http://bandwidthplace.com/images/dot_blue2.gif[/img]

T1 [img]http://bandwidthplace.com/images/dot_black.gif[/img]

56k modem [img]http://bandwidthplace.com/images/dot_black.gif[/img]

^ I have a 3.06, 1024 RDRam, Radeon 9700 Pro, and tweaked Alienware.. it says i had a better connection than a T1..

[img]http://www.teamsecret.com/downloads/uploads/test.gif[/img]

*sigh*

Communications
217.9 kilobits per second

Storage
26.6 kilobytes per second

1MB file download
38.5 seconds

Compared to all connection types worldwide, yours is average

Mine is just barely above 56k