[Electric_Head]

I've had Sprint DSL (512k/128k) for about 2 years now only to the fact that NO other broadband but satelite was available in my area. Been paying $50/month for that shitty connection. Not only is it slow, but it drops atleast once per day, usually more, for a couple minutes then it comes back. Sprint cant figure out whats wrong and we've gone through a few modems. The techs that have checked it out basically say "we dont know whats wrong", and leave. A couple of my friends have the same problem with sprint DSL too.

Well, cable finally made its way in and i'll have a 3mbps line tomorrow for $41/month, Win/Win situation. Does cable still have that problem with speeds slowing down when alot of people have it in your area? Not that i think alot of people will have it around me.....I live in redneck central USA.

Kinda random post but i'm excited about it. Kinda like when i went from dial-up to DSL.

[Canadian_man001]

i got ADSL from aliant and it works great... its not uncommon for my downlaod speeds to be 200-300Kb/s and i never loose connection and my modem is also routed to 4 computers. never a problem

[super_Chris]

My DSL is stable as hell, I've been knocked off once! I used to have comcast, and it worked great, never dropped that. Once you get cable, look into getting a modded modem(PM me, don't post).

I used to get around 2mbyte/s until I broke my modem.

[SoulAssassin]

I have cable and I have no problems with my connection slowing or dropping...probably because I'm the one hogging the bandwidth oooooor nobody else uses it that much.

[MaesterB]

I've been using cable for the past 6 years, and I've never had a problem. Sure, I've had to replace a couple of modems, but that is about it.

I know, though, that DSL usually has issues with peak time usage. I've never heard of that problem with cable (at least, I've never experienced it).

[randomtask]

Originally Posted by MaesterB

I know, though, that DSL usually has issues with peak time usage. I've never heard of that problem with cable (at least, I've never experienced it).

You have that back to front...

My understanding of cable is each neighbourhood has a certain amount of bandwidth to it, that is then shared out to all the homes with cable internet. The advertised speed is the 'capped' speed of your line.

With DSL, you should be getting the same fixed speed the entire time for your line. Advertised speed here, is the speed your personal line is allocated.

[MaesterB]

That's actually kind of funny. I've had the exact opposite with DSL. In a busier part of town, if a client has DSL, it's slow as hell. Whereas a customer with cable, no problems.

I used to live across the street from a school that used cable. My speeds never suffered, and the school had about 30 machines on internet at anyone point in time.

Maybe it's different in different cities. I know here in Regina, Sasktel blows.

[funkgab]

cable still has the drain problem, but it shouldn't matter, it doesnt train too much so its not bad.. im running 8/1mbit cable right now

[Canadian_man001]

I am theonly customer for about 6 miles in either direction with ADSL.. im upgrading it to 5Mb/s instead of 1.5Mb/s. anwyays my up time on my modem has been aboput 4 weeks strait... no loss of connection or even slow times.. my router says its beenc onnected for 4 weeks straight and ive only ever unplugged my modem twice to give it a brain drain

[Electric_Head]

Bye Bye 512/128k HELLO 3mb/512k

General web browsing actually feels faster and more responsive, with the DSL it took pages a good 3-4 seconds to load, now its instant. Latency on games on my usual servers used to hover around 60-80, now i'm averaging 20-30 on the same servers. I'm also paying $9 LESS per month

good day, good day indeed.

[Nothing.]

My Cable is decent. A little slower than what it should be. But, it does fine for me.

And, it has been dropping in and out recently.

[ThatHideousStrength]

My DSL sucked dick, I was near the limit (10000 feet) and it dropped alot and was slow Under 300 Megabites per Second.

[PeNZ]

Originally Posted by Nothing.

My Cable is decent. A little slower than what it should be. But, it does fine for me.

And, it has been dropping in and out recently.

Fuck, you too?? Mine has been doing that shit all the time, I thought it was my modem.

[Goofus Maximus]

Call and complain. Drop outs like that could be related to signal strength problems from bad cable/amplifier somewhere between you and the router, or from router problems, or a bad cable modem.

Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

[Ranger]

i usually get around 800kb/s download on my cable, its friggin awsome

[Jamsan]

i feel sorry for anyone who lives in Jersey and can't get optimum online

[ivwshane]

I can only get dsl in my area

It sucks because I keep seeing cable providers increase the speed of their service for free while I'm stuck at 384-1500/128-384.

What's even worse though is that I have to have a phone line which I would love to drop and install a pbx system instead.

My town is so small that I doubt anything else will be coming out

[darktides]

Cable does not suffer from a drain per se, i know here in my system, the midsouth, we offer more bandwidth per user than what we sell, meaning we have say 2mbits more than what the customer has so that they can get good speeds.

The drain problem was a constant one in the early days of cable internet when there truely wasnt enough bandwidth for the people that wanted it, now with digital cable we have more bandwidth than before and the networks are designed for everyone to have the service and still have enough bandwidth.

sorry that was so long

[oblivious_maximus]

darktides is right - that "too many users online in your neighbourhood" problem on cable is old news (and my experience has been that that problem never existed on DSL), that's a 20th century issue that I seriously doubt people still have to deal with(provided their ISP's infrastructure doesn't suck).


I've had a 4Mbit dsl line since I cancelled my 5Mbit cable line(that I was suckered into getting[and buying a modem for] with promises of "unlimited access") back in the spring due to bandwidth caps. The other night I had the first service disruption that I've noticed since getting DSL - and I'm pretty sure it was more an upgrade than a disruption, yesterday I get a letter from Bell saying "your 4Mbit line is now a 5Mbit line...no charge!" Unfortunately, they haven't listened to my (and apparently many other customers') requests that they allot more upstream. However, I have been told to expect my DSL to become a 7Mbit line in the near future, I'm just hoping when that happens I get at least 1Mbit for uploading, 2Mbits would just blow my mind.

[Electric_Head]

Yea, i'm one of few area's in NJ that dont have optimum, the cable i got is through service electric(local cable company), but its been good so far.

[funkgab]

ah, but i hear dsl is bieng upgraded to fiberoptics