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

[Phil Stracchino]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:01:56AM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 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.

True.  I understand some cable operator in west Texas got class-action
sued by their customers because they had only three cable segments for
all of West Texas, with over 100,000 subscribers on each segment, and
their customers couldn't even get *on*.


>  Plus, all bandwidth is shared *somewhere*,
> whether its on the CPE end or at the DS3 connection to the "net".

Very true.


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