Broadband: High Speed Cable VS DSL
High Speed Cable VS DSL
by IGWright - 4/21/07 8:14 AMI'm moving down the hall in my building and I may be switching to DSL. I have Road Runner now with a wireless router and 2 wireless laptops, and I'm totally happy with it.
at&t has a DSL "Elite" $34.99/Month. It's supposed to be up to 6.0 megasomethings which I gather is 4 X faster than Cable. Also I'm about 100 feet from a building that sais at&t on it and has no windows, so I'm thinking that must be a terminal building.
The bottom line is that the at&t package is cheaper and ostensible faster. Has anyone had any experience here.
Thanks,
Ian
My neighbot has dsl, I have cable.
by R. Proffitt
- 4/21/07 8:35 AM
In reply to: High Speed Cable VS DSL by IGWright
But I pay less since I get the TRI FECTA of cable tv, phone and internet. So I have the higher speed connection for less bucks (for now.)
Be sure to see what combo's are available that can get you the best deal. I pay 103 a month for all services plus that MTA rental. As to speed I've seen 8 or so megabit down and over 1 megabit up but that all depends on too many factors to write you'll always get that.
Hope this helps,
Bob
That's what I'm looking at. at&t is offering the following:
by IGWright - 4/21/07 8:49 AM In reply to: My neighbot has dsl, I have cable. by R. Proffitt
- Phone $24.99
- DSL Elite $34.99
- 3 Months Free With Cable Bill
- 1 Month Free With 1 Year Contract
- America's Top 100 $24.99
Ian
Dsl is one quarter the speed of cable
by mjd420nova - 4/27/07 4:43 PM In reply to: High Speed Cable VS DSL by IGWrightYou said that DSL was 4 times faster than cable.. Wrong, it's more like the other way around. I have cable and get almost 8 MBS on downloads and close to 1 MBS uplinks. No DSL will compete with that unless you're paying for a business hookup and then you might match it for five times the price.
It all depends where you are
by apachepilot - 4/27/07 10:26 PM In reply to: Dsl is one quarter the speed of cable by mjd420novaI am currently living in Germany and I pay about 40 euros a month for 16Mbps DSL Line. I dont believe that is offered anywhere in the states. Also there is some confusion between MBs and Mbps. Time Warner Cable's fastest residential offering is 8Mbps not MB. MB is mega-byte which is totally different size then Mbps(megabit per second). 8Mbps is 8000 bytes a second, there are 8 bits to a byte. So divide 8000 by 8 and you get 1000 bytes which is 24 bytes short of a true meg which is 1024.
Quick correction
by apachepilot - 4/27/07 10:29 PM In reply to: It all depends where you are by apachepilotIn my previous post I state " 8Mbps is 8000 bytes a second". That is incorrect. 8Mbps is 8000 Bits per second.
"mega" is synonymous wih "million"
by AshQuinn1 - 4/29/07 11:54 AM In reply to: Quick correction by apachepilotAnd so 8Mbps is actually 8,000,000 bits per second...not 8,000.
you are correct
by apachepilot - 4/29/07 12:46 PM In reply to: "mega" is synonymous wih "million" by AshQuinn1Your are correct but that stills comes out to less than 1 megabyte per second.
Not really
by googoobaby7 - 4/29/07 1:49 PM In reply to: It all depends where you are by apachepilotI have Time Warner roadrunner cable net and it is residential, But it is 100mbps.
Send the link
by apachepilot - 4/29/07 2:13 PM In reply to: Not really by googoobaby7I just checked the website for Time Warner and they offer nothing like that. Are you aware how big the bandwidth they would need to be able to offer 100mbps to a residential area? You would have the fastest residential connection on earth. Verizon Fios tops out at 30Mpbs and that runs 179.00
http://news.com.com/Beware+of+broadband+speed+overkill/2100-1034_3-6073081.html
All right
by googoobaby7 - 5/24/07 6:06 AM In reply to: Send the link by apachepilotI can't send you the link, But whenever I go online it says 100 mbps. I hope Time Warner is right, But they might be telling a lie.
it says 100Mbps...
by halben - 8/20/07 3:23 PM In reply to: All right by googoobaby7because the connection between your computer and your cable modem or router is 100Mbps. Your actual connection to the Internet will not be that fast.
A little Heartland Input
by hallettracing - 9/26/07 7:58 AM In reply to: Dsl is one quarter the speed of cable by mjd420novaI got a little perturbed the other day when AT&T called and wanted to know if I wished to improve my Internet speed and switch to DSL from Cable? She told me their DSL was much faster than cable. When I used to have ADSL with SW Bell I typically downloaded files at around 50 to 65 kbps as compared to this:
5120 KB downloaded in 8.25 seconds
2048 KB uploaded in 30.39 seconds
Speed @ 107% of the average for dhcp.insightbb.com
96 times faster than 56k dialup
Tested on: 2007.09.26 09:47 EDT
Tested from: layeredtech.com
They should probably get their facts straight before attempting to sell their product.
Tim T
OKC/OK
Tried them all
by Ecm - 4/27/07 5:03 PM In reply to: High Speed Cable VS DSL by IGWrightI started with modems @ 300 bps (pre-internet) and been through most ways to connect to the net (ISDN, satellite, cable, DSL.) In the DSL vs. Cable wars, I side with Cable. I have had better RELIABILITY with cable than DSL. Maybe it was the provider, but consider if someone is working in the telco central office or on the phone lines (installing/repairing) you may lose the DSL connection. This happened to me too often. Had to make many calls re: DSL not working but phone did. Cable outages have been rare and short, and I have been on cable systems in different states.
Ed
Check this out...
by juane42 - 4/27/07 5:14 PM In reply to: Tried them all by EcmIt is weird that you were able to dial out and the high speed internet not working, usually, it is the other way around. The dial tone could go, and the hsi still works. Regardless, cable and dsl have different tier speeds and they are priced accordingly. All I know that in my daily work routine, I bring back subscribers to at&t all day long. It is a proven fact that every 11 seconds a customer is coming back to at&t after trying other services.
The Telephone Man!
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