from my experience i think cable cuz i had both and used to get like 80 kbs with cable now with dsl i only get 40

Cable is capable of going much faster, but in many cases DSL can be better. My cable (RCN) is pretty poor. It's a hybrid connection (14.4 phone line upstream), and I get about 20 kbs. When I restart and download a huge binary from a news server, it peaks around 150, but it the speek quickly fades to about 20 kbs after only a few hours. It's a real pain in the arse to restart since it is connected to a router in another part of the house, and the only way to restart it is to unplug it and wait 10 minutes or so for it to connect. My cable is out quite a bit. It's actually been down for over a week. If had the option to get DSL here, I would definitely get it. What I really want is Cablevision/Optimum Online.

The best thing to do is compare the actual ISP's that are available to you. dslreports.com (http://dslreports.com) is my favorite site for that stuff. They have charts on all the most common broadband connections.

Cable is faster most of the time.

Most DSL is around 1.0 or 1.5 Mbits Download

Cable is 2.0 or more Mbits/s download..

In my area Cable is over twice as fast as DSL...Roadrunner Rocks..:D

yeah i got aol dsl and it sucks takes me like 4 hours to download 1 disc of a movie can anyone give me anypointers of how i can speed it up a bit

I have cable and it max's out at around 6.25MB or 800Kbytes/Sec download uploads however are capped at 16K/s.

cable is capped so so u uncap the download speed with software and u will get faster speeds

I reccomend using newsgroups on cable I got 1.5 mb/s and up.

Depends, with Cable, if your the only person In your neighborhood, its faster than DSL, but if your not, get DSL, cause Cable is shared.

I had cable I use to get 700kb-1.7mb, then when everyone started getting it speeds dropped to 150-300kb, probably lower now. Next' ill try DSL

well not many people in my area has broad band period but i dont know any newsgroups that support any cable in my area is their a search fo newsgroups that i can use i know its determined by which isp you have but still i want to do a search to determine which one is good for me

i have aol dsl and found out that its not compatible with the ps2 modem...until december. Optimum online has never looked better.

Originally posted by Jaice
Depends, with Cable, if your the only person In your neighborhood, its faster than DSL, but if your not, get DSL, cause Cable is shared.

I had cable I use to get 700kb-1.7mb, then when everyone started getting it speeds dropped to 150-300kb, probably lower now. Next' ill try DSL


No it's not shared, your cable company might need to do an upgrade in your area. It is split by area and if it is setup right everyone in that area can pull at max speed.

I am on Cable and I get 3.2 MB/s downloads, 384 up. And that has never changed because Time Warner knows what they are doing. ;)

How it is setup is each "area" has a certian number of routers and it's broken down to a router for each smaller area, then on each router there are a number of modems. Each Router is setup to allow max bandwith for the modems even if all the modems on that router are pulling at the same time.


How do I know this?

I work for a cable company. ;)

well i hope i find a way to solve this problem soon

DSL is not even close to that speed 99% of the time, it depends on the company and your wallet. ;)

Most DSL is 1.5mb/s downloads max.

And if you are more than a Mile away from their switch the speed starts to degrade the farther you go past the mile marker.

Another issue is service if your connection goes down, most of the time you are looking at 2 weeks min before your connection is backup. I have a few friends on DSL and I can tell you when they are down it's dialup for awhile.

Guys who has cable and getting a superb d/l speed, which cable company are u with?

Cable is sharred, you might get 3.2mb per sec, but your probably the only one on your street with Cable.

DSL is better if Cable is to slow for you.

Want Faster, pay 1000$ a month for T1, or more for T3
If your rich get OC12 or OC24 or OC48 which has a download speed on 2488 megabytes per sec, who needs that much?

me my dsl is very slow man it takes like 5 minutes for a 5 mb mp3

cable

something wrong with your dsl BILL YATES thats way too long for a 5 meg file, i personally like my dsl connection as i think the 128k upload on ntl cable is poo

JAM

Originally posted by Jaice
Cable is sharred, you might get 3.2mb per sec, but your probably the only one on your street with Cable.




No it's not shared, it's a myth started by the DSL companies as a sales tool.


And I do know what I am talking about. ;)


And no I'm not the only one on my street with Cable, I live in Town so I guess that kinda blows your assumtion away....:laugh:

Originally posted by Tonypony1010
Guys who has cable and getting a superb d/l speed, which cable company are u with?


I have Roadrunner / 3.2 MB/s download speeds..:D Yeah Baby..:D:D

Time Warner Cable - Raleigh, NC

BEEP, BEEP...:cool: