Next message: Tim Scoff: "RE: [WinMac] Cable vs DSL"
I tried both and personally I like Cable better. At the price range from
~$40 to $45, cable is much faster than DSL in download (250KB vs. 20KB) and
about the same in upload (~20KB to 25KB) in the city I live (Cincinnati,
OH). I have been with RoadRunner since Fall of 1999 and there might be
10-20 times I had connection problems and I might encountered slowdown
problems less than 10 times. In the month I tried ADSL, I encountered 1
connection problem. I have not noticed any slowdown problem although it was
just slower all the time. So, the ratio of having problems are probably
similar.
In my city, ADSL does not have 24/7 tech support while cable has 24/7
service. The level 1 tech support usually isn't too helpful. You have to
get level 3 to get real help. If there is really a problem, the turnaround
time (for repair) is probably 2-3 days that you have to make an appointment
and have service people to come and take a look at the hardware,
connections, etc if problems can't fixed on phone.
I read that cable has more security problems, but since my computer is not
online 24/7 I have not encountered security problems (except port probing).
Cable offers 3 distinctive IPs for each account. ADSL might be similar.
With a router, it does not matter too much. If you'd like to serve webpage
from home, you might need to ask if your ISP allows that. I know my friends
with ADSL serve their web pages from home fine. I only serve web pages to
relatives at certain time so I don't know if they would disallow if it's
public.
My conclusion after trying ADSL for one month was both were not perfect
(RoadRunner is notorious for bad news servers that have missing binaries).
If you don't download files too often, either one would be OK. If you like
to browse and download and try out software, cable is much better for its
download speed.
Changhsu Liu
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