What DSL cable service is best?

The speed is great, as SKYHN said, and cable is affected more by the number of people downloading and how much they download. I have DSL and hardly ever run into problems.

DSL is also affected by how far away your computer is from the server, so there is no point in getting it if the server is really far away.

Originally posted by Nfested
DSL is also affected by how far away your computer is from the server, so there is no point in getting it if the server is really far away.

You mean the gateway, not server.

When I played LOD, I would get lower pings on the east coast server than the west coast, and Im in california.

I have cable and have no slowdowns or problems. Granted it is a lot faster at 4am then it is at 10pm, but not a big difference.

I have no problems with DSL either, both of them are good, they deffinitely beat out 56k.

Originally posted by Xtren
I have no problems with DSL either, both of them are good, they deffinitely beat out 56k.

Anything beats my 56k

Originally posted by Nfested
Anything beats my 56k

Oh I assure you that some connections can be much, much worse, and the worse of them all.... no connection at all

Originally posted by SKYHN


You mean the gateway, not server.

When I played LOD, I would get lower pings on the east coast server than the west coast, and Im in california.

Yea, that's what I meant.

DSL isn't really "shared' per say. The only place where it may get shared is at the C/O. Even then you get the bandwidth that you pay for, or at least your supposed to. Line quality may interfer with that. And if you don't get the speed you pay for complain until they fix it.

I work for an ISP and we were re-selling Verizon DSL, but we stopped due to Verizon's slowness with getting it out the door. All the customers that we currently have will continue to call until they get the service they paid for, which we in turn make sure they get it. But we don't really have much control over the process other than calling Verizon and another company that takes care of the actual T-1s distributing the dsl.

At any rate, I've looked into both options cable/DSL. I just ordered DSL today and am supposed to get the modem on Tuesday of next week. Sprint is my local telco, so I'll see how they do. All my friends up north including my g/f have cable. I'm so used the 3Mbs connection, so using a 512kbs connection will interesting. The speed to cost ratio is very much skewed when going with DSL though.

As for the sharing in cable. Unless you live in a highly populated area and all the people on the node that you are on are d/l'ing massive files then you shouldn't need to worry about speed. I know 4 guys that are all techies and they use the cable on their street heavily. They all get around 200-300KB constantly. They aren't the only ones on the street either.

Technically everything is shared if you think about it.
Oh and rifter, this post is uh 2 years old.

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Tis ok, lol. I was reading it because I was thinking of getting dsl. Now I do have DSL and enjoy it, but I wish that the d/l rate was higher. My connection is rated at 512Kb. With it I get a max of 50KB for d/l speed.