pbarrowPremium
join:2003-09-16
Montgomery, AL
kudos:1 | If one does a little web searching you can find explanations.
Any time you are on a shared service where your modem is told when and for how long it can send/receive data (timeslice - especially the Upstream)like cable then you are going to see erratic performance - unless you are on a Node almost by yourself.
And all it takes is for the Upstream to become saturated (bittorents etc.) and then it affects the Downstream for everyone on the Node as well and Download suffers.
There was a good article about this and comparing DSL - but I don't recall where I found it.
And just try getting the cable company to expand (or even acknowledge) Node capacity and see what a headache that is. |
 Titus PulloI came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
kudos:1
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Agreed. If my DSL service stays as it has since I signed up (dropped Adelphia right before the Comcast takeover) nearly two years ago, I wouldn't ___EVER___ go back to cable.
* Vastly better uptime (no downtime, in fact)
* Less latency
* Very consistent speeds
* No need for customer support because I have no problems
* Cheaper for my needs and with no bi-yearly price increases
* No shame of writing checks to a company that advertises Golden Goo
I've gone DSL and won't look at cable unless DSL goes in the sh*tter. Then I have no choice but to look at cable or dialup. And if the economy gets much worse, I may just go the latter. Text only internet isn't horrible, just pretty bad.
Turning off images, scripts, flash, etc, and getting down to pure text is painful, but not as painful as needing the $50 difference in price is when you're hungry or need medicine.
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