[ale] What Do You Think About Cable vs DSL Now-a-Days?

[Greg Freemyer]

I've got cable in the Smyrna area.

During the business day, it flies, so working from home is great.  I
often put in an hour or two from home, then drive to the office.

During the evenings, its downright slow.  Good excuse not to work from
home at night.  If I have to I've been known to fire up my verizon
cell service and use my laptop instead of my desktop machine.

So you really need to think of the time of day you'll be using the
connection and how that fits with the other users.  You really want to
avoid being part of the crowd.

Greg

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:34 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> As mentioned, you have to consider the usage policy. That is one of
> the reasons I use AtNex over AT&T (can't get cable as far out as I am
> so it isn't even a consideration).
>
> Technically, you share DSL with your neighbors once it hits the local
> routing box[1]. It just isn't setup in a daisy chain like cable is in
> some neighborhoods. The biggest advantage to DSL is lower latency. On
> my 3Mb DSL link (too far out for 6Mb), I get an average ping time of
> 91ms (88ms to 119ms) over 50 pings to google.com. If you play a lot of
> games online, or use VoIP, this is the measure you want to use in your
> decision.
>
> [1] -- http://www.dslreports.com/faq/129
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Fellas,
>>
>> You're all familiar with the old war between Cable and ADSL.  I'd like to
>> know if you guys have an opinion on it today? We currently have Cable (with
>> Comcast) and we can get a better package deal with AT&T, but we'll switch
>> back to ADSL.  Both offer 6 Mbps (downstream), but we know that ADSL is a
>> private line so you're guaranteed that amount.  Has the game changed over
>> the years?
>>
>> When I was with ADSL, I was an ADSL-fanboy - when I switched to Cable, I was
>> a Cable-fanboy... so now I'm on the ropes. Facts are facts and it sounds
>> like the private ADSL connection is better rather than a hit-or-miss with
>> Cable.  Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Marc F.
>
>
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