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

[Steve Marinello]

I should have also added that I delayed getting DSL again because I was
waiting for Earthlink to be able to provide me service so that I could get
their national dial-up monthly minutes, which BellSouth does not have.  It
was not available, as it turned out, due to their systems apparent
incompatibility with the optical cable run in my area (not that that really
makes sense), but I finally went with BellSouth when I got fed up with the
cable service.  Of course, after six months of waiting, I signed up for
BellSouth and got an email from Earthlink three days later saying that they
could now service my DSL needs.  Just perfect...


----- 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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