Cable vs DSL: A Broadband Comparison

Every wonder whether to choose DSL or Cable? Well, there's no easy answer.

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[CosmicPowerz]

In most areas cable is better.

[MyGamer911]

thumbs up if you hate dsl.. i know i do...

[KEEVVY]

Fiber rules

[TheAngryAmericanwon]

@CosmicPowerz and in most areas DSL is better!

[bulby130]

I got 20 mbps and unlimited internet.

[funnyangrykid]

my dsl provider gives me 5.00Mbps- 1 MegaByte Download but the upload speed jitters from 0.24Mbps- 1.30Mbps but i am very pleased with my ISP considering i live in a rural area.

[doug65536]

@BoyGamer100 You should contact your provider about your issues. In my experience, and based on how cable and DSL actually work, I found what I posted to be true. You could find the opposite to be true, which is why I warned that you can't generalize which one is better.

[BoyGamer100]

@doug65536 HA! great for online gaming my ass! some of my friends that have comcast get WAY better connection than me, when im playing cod with my friends I ALWAYS lag out unless I get lucky, and when I do get into a game, I get a 1,2,or 3 bar, never full unless its late at night when nothings on but my xbox.

[doug65536]

@Thet3 I don't think you can make a full generalization about which one is better. A rule of thumb I can give is: cable tends to have higher throughput and higher latency, dsl tends to have lower throughput and lower latency. If I had to guess, I'd say cable would be "better" for downloading large files, dsl would be "better" for online gaming. That is just a rule of thumb though, you'd have to try both to be sure.

[NBAfan001]

this morning i went onto BTs website and out of intrest i clicked on "check your speed" and firstly entered my address, and then entered my neighboors address, and Bt predicted that I should be getting between 1.0 and 2.5 mb broadband speed, however they predict that my next door neighboor should get between 1.0 and 5.0 mb speeds? why is my neighboor getting faster speeds than me when we both live the same distance away from our telephone exchange?!?

[PSIPigmask]

DSL sucks ass.I'm trying to convince my dad to switch to cable. Just to watch a two minute YouTube video on DSL takes 5 minutes to actually load.

[chicken5278]

okay i had dsl 3 mbps switched to time warner got 10 mbps for the same price as my dsl and they said i would only get 10 mbps only and i get 20 mbps never charged my extra and its been great cable is way better than dsl dsl service sucks if you live in a bad place