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DSL or Cable?
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For many reasons, I''m looking at moving to a high-speed connection at home. Which is the best way to go here? I live in a well-populated area (San Diego, CA), so I think both are available. I''ve looked at the commercial info, but there seems to be a lot of veiled half-truths and obfuscation going on. Here are the questions I have--maybe someone here can answer them?
1) Which is faster? Theoretically AND experimentally.
2) Which is cheaper?
3) What''s the equipment? My main problem is that I have a laptop at home, so internal cards are not going to be able to work for me. I have an ethernet PC card, but I don''t know if the equipment can use that or not.
4) Anything else I should know?
TIA, GDers.
1) Theoretically, cable should be faster, but experimentally, it depends on the area that u live, cuz your whole area shares a cable hub, so if u''re living in a very populated area, u gonna have some lags in cable connection. my area is ok, i''m one of the 4 or 5 ppl in our street who are using cable, so i have something like 400kb/sec bandwidth most o the times
2) Here, in Toronto, the price is almost the same (cable $40/month, and DSL $35/month)
3) i haven''t personally tried DSL, but i know that i can connect my cable modem to any computer i want, since it has a ethernet-to-USB connector, i connect it to my computer using USB, not ethernet. so if your laptop has a USB port, u can use it!
4) umm, i think that''s pretty much it. but i think someone who has DSL and knows more about it should post something for you too, cuz i dont know too much about DSL
- pouya
2) Here, in Toronto, the price is almost the same (cable $40/month, and DSL $35/month)
3) i haven''t personally tried DSL, but i know that i can connect my cable modem to any computer i want, since it has a ethernet-to-USB connector, i connect it to my computer using USB, not ethernet. so if your laptop has a USB port, u can use it!
4) umm, i think that''s pretty much it. but i think someone who has DSL and knows more about it should post something for you too, cuz i dont know too much about DSL
- pouya
Originally had cable. Downtimes were often and long, and the service was just what you''d expect from your local cable company.
Dumped them six months ago and replaced ''em with DSL. Haven''t regretted doing it for a second. Reliability is much better, and the speed is actually better.
Dumped them six months ago and replaced ''em with DSL. Haven''t regretted doing it for a second. Reliability is much better, and the speed is actually better.
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