The different technologies determine the speed, and so you have to evaluate your needs. Cable is fast - it is a wide open pipe and I have personally clocked 400 - 600 MB/sec over cable. Being an open pipe, the more people online draining the pipe, the slower it gets, and I have personally clocked sub-ISDN speeds when all the "gamers" in my neighborhood are online.
DSL is a fixed rate - the more bandwidth you desire, the more you pay. You can get as much as T1 speeds, if you are willing to pay for it. The benefit is that you are guaranteed a certain bandwidth. The drawback is that you are guaranteed a certain bandwidth, and not a bit more. Ask some neighbors who are running cable, and some who are running DSL. In my particular neighborhood it was a no brainer - I am too far away from the switch to get DSL, so it was cable, or satellite DSL - another option, but still pricey. If you are in an area without a lot of "gamers" you should do okay. Rodney H. Kay President Healthcare Informatics Technology Services, Inc. http://www.hits-inc.us 360-981-4000, fax: 866-278-2881 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gregory Woodhouse Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Hardhats-members] Cable vs. DSL Does anyone have guidance as to what parameters (i.e., numbers) I should look at to comparer the relative performance of cable and DSL under various scenarios (telnet, SSH, ordinary browsing, streaming audio/video, VPN). I'm wondering which would be the best option for a home office. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is foolish to answer a question that you do not understand." --G. Polya ("How to Solve It") ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
