Cable & DSL have different strengths in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20631833 en Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:49:16 EDT Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:49:16 EDT Cable & DSL have different strengths http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20631833 GOLFnSUN : DSL works really well in heavily urban areas where the CO's are close together and distance to customers are short. But it doesn't work well in suburban areas were distance runs are long - then speeds suffer for many of their users. And while remote terminals can be used to improve things, the distances can still be long.

Cable can be just the opposite. In heavily built up areas, cable nodes are often oversubscribed and when prime time hits speeds can slow down for everyone. But in suburban areas where nodes are often sparsely populated full speeds are often maintained all the time.

So it wasn't surprising to see the UK study numbers showing rural areas getting lower DSL speeds.
A survey earlier this month suggested people living in the country were suffering from an average speed of just 2.3Mbps, compared to 4.5Mbps in London.
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