Originally posted by Officer Cartman:
I work for a cable company (and I used to work for one of our competitors before that), and I can tell you that there's no comparison between cable and DSL. DSL lovers like to mention how you get a guaranteed rate, but fail to mention how slow that rate is, and how you're actually paying more for it.
My current cable provider offers 128K upstream and 1800K downstream, for $40/month. And we monitor node activity, and break it up if we see too much utilization on a particular neighborhood, so you never experience a real slowdown when multiple people are online. Caching servers at the headend also help with this.
Bingo. I've had both DSL and cable, and there's no comparison. The slowest time I ever had on a cable modem was still close to twice as fast as my previous DSL connection. The whole bandwidth saturation argument about cable is WAY overplayed, especially if you are running with a good cable ISP. DSLreports.com is a good place to start.
