DSL or Cable for high speed?
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From: Lorain,Oh USA
DSL or Cable for high speed?
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 02-Nov-02 AT 06:17 PM (EST)] i had Adelphia Powerlink Cable Internet Service for a year and a half and LOVED it! ive never had DSL so i couldnt really vote. in all the time i had cable internet service i dindnt have ONE problem, not ONE.
good luck vamp
BTW, once you have cable or dsl.......you'll hate having dial-up again if you have to go back to it. i had to go back to dial-up when i switched from cable to a dish.
good luck vamp
BTW, once you have cable or dsl.......you'll hate having dial-up again if you have to go back to it. i had to go back to dial-up when i switched from cable to a dish.
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From: Langhorne, PA
DSL or Cable for high speed?
I would switch to DSL if the greedy companies would make the price reasonable. Out here above Philly, Pa. they want $40.00 a month, and I would bet it is more like $46.00 after they add on tax and fees.
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From: New Hampshire
DSL or Cable for high speed?
I vote for cable. I first had verizon DSL and it was lightning fast compared to dial up. Then I got a cable modem adn it is at least twice as fast as DSL. I can download a 200mb file in about 20 minutes depending on the site. Very good for online gaming as well.
Bill
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From: Campbell, California
DSL or Cable for high speed?
I live in the heart of silicon valley and neither option was available in my area, go figure. AT&T still does not offer cable modem, and DSL became available about two weeks after my neighbor got feed up and put a full blown T1 line in. Hmmmmm 1.3 mps for $40 a month, or 360 kps for $50 bucks a month, that's a no brainier. If I had the option to choose between DSL and cable modem, I would choose DSL simply because of the security and expandability issues associated with a cable modem.
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Cargo Master
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DSL or Cable for high speed?
i asked this question because i just switched from cable to dsl. dsl had a promo, 20 bucks a month for the first 6 months while cable was 43 something a month
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From: Conroe, TX
DSL or Cable for high speed?
I've got time warner's road runner. considering it is cheeper than dial up and 2mbs downstream it is great. The only down side it the 40kBs upstream cap they put on the modem.
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DSL or Cable for high speed?
$40 is reasonable. You pay $20 for dialup, what's wrong with paying twice as much for $20-50 times the speed?
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DSL or Cable for high speed?
DSL if you live in the city, cause cable will go very slow when in the city they put TONS of people on the nodes(sp?) and dont upgrade them to allow for more users. DSL is also sweet if you can afford it and are close to the base station. Cable if you live anywhere else.
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From: Utica, NY
DSL or Cable for high speed?
I have Adelpha Powerlink. I would NEVER go back to dial-up! When I was visiting my sister this past week, I went on FTE to stay up to date and the speed was terrible (they have dial-up).
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DSL or Cable for high speed?
They're both decent. I had Earthlink DSL for a month. It was.... slow for DSL. After a month it stopped working. I'm back on dail-up. Cable IS faster, but theres problems. If you live in a populated area you can get screwed. If a lot of people in your area have cable and are all using it at once, it can narrow your bandwidth down to lower than dail-up. It happens, I don't know how often, but I know it does.
Eitherway. Don't get Earthlink. They suck - a lot
Eitherway. Don't get Earthlink. They suck - a lot
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DSL or Cable for high speed?
i say dsl for sure. when i first went to dsl a few years ago i was stoked because it was soo fast compared to dialup. here at school we have something just like dsl. and for living in the 3rd largest dorm in america at the 4th largest school, i have had downloads of up 1.5 mb per second. i can download a 20 minute, 80 meg episode of the simpsons in under 5 minutes. its great.
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DSL or Cable for high speed?
Hold on a moment!!!!!! You mean you guys are allowed to have DSL????????? My little Credit monger (read-wife) won't let me get the fast and the furious of the internet. I'm still living in the land of dial up. Whoa is me.
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DSL or Cable for high speed?
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>Hold on a moment!!!!!! You mean you guys are allowed to
>have DSL????????? My little Credit monger (read-wife) won't
>let me get the fast and the furious of the internet. I'm
>still living in the land of dial up. Whoa is me.
man, i have fast and the furious and aobut 60 others. i know i should really be paying for them, but im broke at the moment
i took dsl over cable cause in my area cable really slows down. within 3 houses away form me in all directions 4 houses have cable, so when there on and d/ling stuff it really slows down
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>Hold on a moment!!!!!! You mean you guys are allowed to
>have DSL????????? My little Credit monger (read-wife) won't
>let me get the fast and the furious of the internet. I'm
>still living in the land of dial up. Whoa is me.
man, i have fast and the furious and aobut 60 others. i know i should really be paying for them, but im broke at the moment
i took dsl over cable cause in my area cable really slows down. within 3 houses away form me in all directions 4 houses have cable, so when there on and d/ling stuff it really slows down