ydoaPs Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 i finally convinced my parents to get high speed internet. whcih is better, dsl or cable?
donkey Posted June 4, 2005 Posted June 4, 2005 In the UK i'd say cable is better (or at least where you can get telewest (an ISP) instead of ntl (crap ISP)) but you're in the US so things might well be different. I guess DSL has a bit more flexibility in general as it allows you to change ISP without having to change equipment. so in short, it depends on your local circumstances.
H2SO4 Posted June 5, 2005 Posted June 5, 2005 Id have to go with cable. Cable companies seem to have better costumer service versus phone companies. Take for example comcast.
swansont Posted June 5, 2005 Posted June 5, 2005 A drawback of cable is that in many cases you are sharing bandwith with other people on the system.
Mokele Posted June 5, 2005 Posted June 5, 2005 A drawback of cable is that in many cases you are sharing bandwith with other people on the system. I've heard (and this may be wrong) that Cable is also easier to modify/expand (by the company), so if too many people in an area are on it, it can be upgraded so they don't slow you down as much. Mokele
ecoli Posted June 5, 2005 Posted June 5, 2005 I chose DSL, the reason being, is that they're sending the signal through pre-existing telephone wire. I don't have cable, and to lay cable down my 500 ft. driveway would be quite expensive, so DSL is a much better investment for my family.
5614 Posted June 5, 2005 Posted June 5, 2005 ecoli, do you live in a mansion or something!?! Or just up in some random mountain range in a little abandoned hut and chose to call the surrounding mountains a driveway!?!
ecoli Posted June 5, 2005 Posted June 5, 2005 ecoli, do you live in a mansion or something!?! Or just up in some random mountain range in a little abandoned hut and chose to call the surrounding mountains a driveway!?! Actually a live in a two story ranch in the middle of suburbia, Long Island. It just happens that my house is on 2.5 acres of land surrounded by woods, only of the only patches of land not yet developed in my town. This is an old ariel of my house...you can kind of see my driveway, and there are a lot less trees around now.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted June 5, 2005 Posted June 5, 2005 Go cable. It's fast, cheap, and if you get the cable internet from your cable company, they might add in digital cable as well. Fun.
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted June 5, 2005 Posted June 5, 2005 Then adding cable internet wouldn't take that much effort or money.
Lance Posted June 19, 2005 Posted June 19, 2005 If you use web hosting I would go with DSL because the upload speed is equal to your download speed. With cable up speed is half as much. It seems that the provider choice is more important than the DSL/cable choice though.
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