[geeks] cable modem or verizon DSL (in Rhode Island)?

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:48:23AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Personally, I'd take DSL -- especially SDSL -- over cable every time.
> I'm a big fan of SD In the real world, you never attain the advertised
> data rates for cable anyway because you're sharing the marketed
> bandwidth with 10,000 other people, 

I can peg my cablemodem at my capped bandwidth (3M down, 384k up) pretty
much any time of day or night.  It depends on how many people are in
your neighborhood, etc.  Plus, all bandwidth is shared *somewhere*,
whether its on the CPE end or at the DS3 connection to the "net".

Bill

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bill bradford
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austin, texas