[s-cars] Re: NAC - cable modem vs DSL question

[Brian Powell]

I had DSL for over a year.  I've had cable for almost 3 years.  No
comparison: cable is far superior.

I was spending more for DSL at the time for 800kbps and it was flaky.

The "more users slow you down" is DSL marketing BS.  Comcast guarantees
(and limits) 1.5Mbps on my cable for downstream.  Where that mantra
came from was the early days of cable, you could get full bandwidth
that your modem supported (most support 4Mbps) unless there was a lot
of activity, and you would drop down to slower than 4Mbps (you will
still be an order of magnitude faster than many DSL connections).
Since the explosion in users, they don't let it grab bandwidth and
vary, they just set each node to 1.5Mbps and leave it at that.
Upstream is slower, I can't recall what at the moment (I believe
384kbps up).

My cable has been down once in 3 years (that was when @Home folded and
AT&T had to switch us over).  BTW, my home phone is over the cable as
well; I don't have any Bell connections active at my house.

Since they installed my cable modem years ago, they didn't add a filter
yielding "free" analog tv; however, comcast charges me now for analog
cable whether I subscribe or not...

Cheers,
Brian