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

[Steve Marinello]

FWIW, my experience here north of New Orleans is the exact opposite.  DSL at
a rock solid 1.4+ Mbps without problem or slowdowns.  Charter.net cable at
nowhere near that speed and ALWAYS slower in the evenings and weekends.
Outages with way too many medium-size thunderstorms and every major tropical
storm-type system, and they may last for days.  The last two, a few weeks
apart, lasted nearly 3 and 4 days.  Totally unacceptable.  I've recommended
to Bob to check the offered speed and guarantee.  No comparison, in my
experience and those of my neighbors and professional colleagues in the
area.

I only got cable because telocity/directvinternet shut down their DSL
service and Charter offered a "too  cheap to pass up" deal with a
performance guarantee that seemed decent.  Just not in the real world and
thunderstorm activity isn't covered.  I only keep it 'cause in the cable
package it's costing me under $20/month.

Steve
(BellSouth DSL now, but I've still got to get around to changing
subscription addresses...sometime)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Powell" <brian at atomicham.com>
To: <robert at s-cars.org>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:42 AM
Subject: [s-cars] Re: NAC - cable modem vs DSL question


> 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
>
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