DSL vs. Cable?

[The Whole F/N Show]

I guess I lucked out with the DSL experience. I think the Bell Companies are the only one doing good DSL service now. But I may finding how the cable is a couple of month. I know one thing. I can't go back to 56K.

 

[WODIN]

I have cable show...it's pretty good. Some days I get 81 to 105 Kb DL rates some days its 20 - 15 Kb, it all depends on the traffic. But the overall performance is very solid.

 

[The Whole F/N Show]

I never hit a 101ks dl but have hit 60-70ks quite a few times on DSL. It's hard to tell the max speed since a lot has to do with you are downloading from.

 

[QuickGrow]

We can network our DSL connection between the four computers in my apartment for no extra charge by using the Internet Connection Sharing feature in Windows.

AT&T says that if I were to switch to cable, I'd have to pay an additional $5 or so per month for EACH of the other computers to be able to have each PC hooked to the Internet.

 

[The Whole F/N Show]

Yeah that's a good thing I thought about DSL. You can easily share the line. I'd be moving to a place with 2 computer if I do move.

 

[Lao Tzu]

We can network our DSL connection between the four computers in my apartment for no extra charge by using the Internet Connection Sharing feature in Windows.

AT&T says that if I were to switch to cable, I'd have to pay an additional $5 or so per month for EACH of the other computers to be able to have each PC hooked to the Internet.

i thought home networking with a cable modem was free (minus $20 for NIC). you'd just have to share bandwidth.

i didn't set the one i used to have up though. so i have no idea what hardware was necessary (i assume a NIC, cable (probably cat5 stp or coaxil), and maybe a hub is all that is necessary for peer 2 peer networking). probably all available on ebay for $60 total.

 

[musclebrains]

You can certainly network computers on a cable connection -- you're sharing the same connection with other people anyway -- but the cable companies typically consider it illegal, or used to.

If you do switch to cable, be certain you install a firewall program, F/N, but then you'll have the regular experience of having to reboot and reset your modem parameters every time AT&T goes down, which is frequently. Nobody will tell you this, by the way, until you have spent hours trying to figure out what is wrong.

 

[Pimp C]

What all is involved in installing cable yourself? I know you need a card with some cable going to the modem then do you just run that and the tv into a splitter and then into the coax jack for the tv?

 

[slickdadd]

cable, end of story. No competition.

 

[bigguns7]

Whole Show: You do NOT want to deal with AT&T broadband if you can avoid it. It is absolutely the worst service I have ever encountered. There are regular public hearings being conducted now in Atlanta because of the company's notoriously bad service.

My cable modem took a month to get installed, then took another month to get working properly. It goes down several times a week. The ONLY reason I don't get rid of it and switch to DSL is that I don't want to deal with the agony of trying to get AT&T to disconnect it.

Go DSL. The other thing is that if you're in a high-intensity area, your cable speed will be affected.

I'm in Atlanta and AT&T Broadband is the worst company I have ever had to deal with. When I moved into my new place in February, our cable went out 7 times in 3 months. They've really got you fucked though, beacause when it goes out, YOU have to call and wait on hold for an hour to get the service team out, and then YOU have to be there when they come. YOU essentially do all the work even though they are the ones providing a service.