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 ·AT&T U-Verse
| DSL performance vs Cable How does one compare an over-sold understaffed and ill-equipped DSL service against a Cable service that is oversold lacking support etc as well? I would venture to guess my personal DSL performance sucks compared to the performance offered by the local cable provider, all things being equal.
One can only say that the performance that DSL service to a location and provided by dsl provider A is or isn't faster than cable service provided to same location by Cable service provider B. You can't broad base paint the picture that all DSL is faster or slower than all Cable. |
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Greensboro, NC
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 ·Windstream
| said by jimbo48 :
You can't broad base paint the picture that all DSL is faster or slower than all Cable.
Who said I was doing that? I will admit that cable is "faster" when it comes to bandwidth, but you are not guaranteed that speed due to sharing a huge pipe with a zillion other people. All I was saying is that normally dsl is more reliable when it comes do bandwidth and latency (depending on who the ISP is). From what I have gathered from your post, you are saying the same thing I am saying, except for the last sentence. I admit that in some areas cable is faster than dsl, but when dsl is maintained properly, it is generally more reliable than cable in latency/bandwidth terms. |
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·AT&T U-Verse
| JoshC1
didn't mean to indicate that you were painting with a big brush just a comment that there are a lot of "if-then-else" to comparing DSL to Cable.
The sad fact is, in my area, that neither DSL or Cable are maintained or optimized for performance. We're still working out of a CO that has seen explosive growth in number of homes ,apts.. etc yet the same decrepit CO. The cable company enjoys a monopoly from the city and does whatever it pleases. I've not seen cable being replaced in probably 20 years in my neighborhood yet experienced so many rate hikes that I finally dropped the cable.
Yes, you take the optimum conditions for each transport and you'll see an advantage in going DSL but to obtain optimum conditions is a pipedream. The cable and Telcos aren't going to spend that kind of money when they can get premium prices using the decrepit equipment and infrastructure currently in place.(I'm speaking of just my location) you may be fortunate enough to have upgrading going on.
Bottom line-I had no intention of saying that you were painting with a broad brush and apologize if it came across as such.
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