dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH
 ·AT&T Midwest
| reply to battleop
Re: Twice as much.
said by battleop  :Cable's 30% cap is now twice as much! Just like Comcrap's 6Mb Cable is TWICE AS FAST AS DSL! Im still trying to figure out how 6Mb on cable is twice as fast as 6Mb on DSL. Some don't understand that 6Mb is 6Mb. It's like which would you rather be crushed by. A ton of bricks or a ton of feathers. A ton is a ton. In really really really really small print 6Mb cable is faster than 6Mb AT&T DSL provided it is working correctly and the node is not oversold (but nowhere near twice as fast). DSL has overhead for the ATM and PPPoE layers from which cable does not suffer, so with DSL you generally get throughput at about 85% of the sync rate. (Some DSL providers oversync so your throughput is actually at the advertised speed, but not AT&T). Still, in my area 5/512 RoadRunner is $45 with cable TV services, and 6/768 (~ 5/650) AT&T DSL is only $35. In my neighborhood, both are stable. So for $10 less per month, AT&T delivers about the same downstream and a bit more upstream. |
