DSL / CABLE - Which is FASTER

[Sweeper]

DSL: $29.95 Month (Speed 350 kbp/s - 1.5 kbp/s)
CABLE: $ 44.95 Month (what I have now, Speed 250 KB/s)

Now the DSL Provider is telling me his DSL is faster than my cable. But he is showing me kbp/s not KB/s. So, now I'm getting confused.

[vass0922]

30 bucks a month for DSL?
Make sure that's not just an introductory offer that will be raised to 50 bucks a month in 3 months. That's way cheap.

Cable is generally faster. Kb/s is Kilo Bits and KB/s is Kilo Bytes.

Your current cable speed of 250KB/S = 2.0 Kb/sec if my math is right.

8bits=1 Bytes

This is what Verizon DSL told me so I tried them for a month free and then reverted to Road Runner cable (comes thru the TV cable) and been on cable since. I get 2 to 2.4 Kb/S roughly same as you.

Not cheap. Its the deal you get if you take the entire bundle from them--local/long distance and so on. Then they give you DSL at $30.

Else its $40.

[EvilRick]

Look at it this way, the more that are on you CABLE, the slower you go.

With DSL, it doesn't matter who's on, you get the same speed all the time.

I've got BellSouth ADSL and have never, I repeat, NEVER had an outage. That's all I hear about from people w/ Comcast and Charter.

Not at certain times, like 3-4am, CABLE will blow the doors off DSL. But, who's gonna stay up or get up at that time just to get that speed?

[e980238]

He is lying... your cable is faster

1.5Mbps = 1500Kbps

1500Kb (bits) ps / 8 = 187.5 KB (bytes) ps

so DSL is 187KB/s and cable is 250KB/sec

[MatrixmaN]

For me:

DSL= 709kbps
Cable = 4000+kbps

Bout the same price $40ish

Went from DSL to Cable in a heartbeat.

[e980238]

Quote:

Originally posted by EvilRick
Look at it this way, the more that are on you CABLE, the slower you go.

With DSL, it doesn't matter who's on, you get the same speed all the time.

I've got BellSouth ADSL and have never, I repeat, NEVER had an outage. That's all I hear about from people w/ Comcast and Charter.

Not at certain times, like 3-4am, CABLE will blow the doors off DSL. But, who's gonna stay up or get up at that time just to get that speed?

I have optonline and I can always get a 10Mb download going if the place I am downloading it from can handle it ANY time of the day!

[EvilCrow]

Speed differs depending on your ISP and what they cap the speeds at.

Cable is usually faster, but DSL and Cable are basically the same thing, DSL just uses phone lines, and Cable uses the same cables a Cable TV uses.

My ADSL is 1.2MBit downstream/384KBit upstream, and I pay $45 a month. I get 160KB/s max downloads and max 30KB/s uploads.
I'm happy with it.

[Vagabond]

i would like to go DSL but can not afford the line that will compare to my cable modem I have had probs with Comcast in the past but since my last move nearly 2yrs ago I have not had a single issue and there are time where i download well over 350 Kb/s....
but i am also lost in the KB Kb lingo i read a nice review a while back and will try and find it again it explained in nicely

will post it if i find it....

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a good site to start at is
www.dslreports.com

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go to there FAQ some great info there