I'm the furthest from an expert, but in the past have dabbled in both
the DSL and Cable. I've stuck with cable. I have absolutely no
qualifications in this, but only what I've been told. Cable works in
blocks and depending on how many people are connected to your block at
the time you are surfing, or whatever, will depend on your speed. I
live in a small city of about 200,000 and the "block" is probably
about 1 square mile. In a large city like New York the block could be
one building. Anyway, the DSL providers I've talked to said (or tried
to sell me on) that DSL is a constant speed, while cable fluctuates.
I've seen the slow down on cable and found it usually is in the winter
months. What this has to do with it I don't know, but we get bad
weather here and it always seems to happen. I did switch over from
cable TV to Direct TV and had to go out and brush off my disk. It was
caked in snow and interrupting the signal. While I know cable
companies receive their signals over satellite, I don't know if this
is how they transmit their web service.
Jeff M
On Dec 15, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Paula Minor wrote:
So, I have no idea what to do now. I have a little less than 30
days to decide if I'm going to keep DSL. If I go back to Comcast I
have to figure out how to get my router to work with it again and
change all the email settings. UGH. But it does appear that , right
now at least, Comcast is considerably faster....tho at times it
seems to crawl along.
Do those of you with more experience in this area have any thoughts
or opinions?
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