suggestion on cable or adsl

[silkman]

i'm planning to switch from cable to adsl. I was wondering which one is better since I live pretty close to my adsl service building. so help me decide. thanks

[reddog4629]

Cable should be faster and cheaper. Better check with your local phone service for prices and speeds.How much do you pay for cable now and how fast is it? I live in Oklahoma City and 600kb/s cable costs about 50 bucks a month and adsl costs 80+ for 128k!

[Freakout]

Well when both CABLE and xDSL are working there both great. Are you getting xDSL or ADSL? The cable modem has a fixed IP and the xDSL has a renewing IP (Mines every 12hours).

I am with Sympatico HSE (xDSL) and at first it was better than the CABLE modem I had then it started to get bad, Packet loss, downtime ect.....
But they say it's because they are switching from DHCP to PPPOE for there connections.

If your Cable is working and you have no problems stay with it.

[Dominus]

PPPoE? Ugh. If you had any thoughts of using any other OS than Win98 with your ADSL, forget it. PPPoE is a proprietary tunneling protocol that needs a special client to be able to log in with. My DSL ISP uses it for their residential service, and I haven't been able to get internet access in Linux since. But I have at least a little hope of getting Linux net access, because the ISP still uses DHCP for the commercial division of it's service. I may be able to use that instead.

As for the xDSL vs Cable arguement, just check the *Actual speeds* both services offer. Usually with broadband services, they give you a bunch of **** about max theoretical speeds to lure you in (10Mbits\s over ADSL?? I wish), then once you get the service, you realize that they have a 512kbit\s (not Kbps)limit. Other than speed, consider this: ADSL is dedicated, which means you always have the max speed of your line available. Cable is shared, which means the local traffic shares the same line, so during prime time in a busy neighborhood, you're NOT going to get good speeds.

Also be sure you try the service before signing any long term contracts. They usually have BIGASS cancellation fees if you decide not to go with their service. See if you can try it for a week first.