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Re: DSL vs Cable

said by tschmidt See Profile :

Both Cable DOCSIS and DSL are clever engineering designs that added data to network designed for a different purpose.

Cable is a shared medium so adding a customer to cable is much easier as DSL requires the Telco to modify Central Office wiring. It also means everyone on a given node shares the available bandwidth. Whereas DSL is not shared until it hits the DSLAM.

Customer satisfaction has more to do with ISP business practices then underlying technology.

If you are happy with Cable Internet access that is great. As for me I'll stick with DSL and hope to get Fiber to the Premise (FTTP) some day.

/tom
Excellent post tschmidt.

Lets be frank here, both of these technologies are in fact shared mediums. As you said, cable shares at the node whereas DSL is not shared until it hits the DSLAM. I have seen many DSL providers oversubscribe at the CO just as I have seen many nodes oversaturated on the cable side.

The common misconception around these forums is that cable is a shared medium while DSL is not. Some people think their DSL connection plugs right into the backbone of the internet or something which simply is not the case. Any broadband service you get is going to be shared.

The end result is the same, if you are happy with cable, thats awesome. I have Comcast cable in my area and AT&T DSL. I used Comcast at the beginning, moved to AT&T DSL after a year. Their DSL service was so unreliable that I moved back to Comcast for 2 more years. I tried AT&T DSL again back in 2004 and haven't looked back sense. I have subscribed to both lines for about a year and a half and that was quite cool to say the least.
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