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DSL to cable internet
- Thread starter Adower
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deaconblues said:
But you do share your bandwidth from the CO on. Cable modems rock. All that sharing of bandwidth stuff is true, but Comcast allocates more than enough bandwidth to handle their customers on each Node (neighborhood). I'm not knocking DSL, i'm just saying that cable is currently a better deal.
HellFyre
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I've had both DSL and Cable, and I will never go back to DSL. Yes, Cable is shared bandwidth, but still, Cable at its worst is still 2-3 times faster than DSL's best . At least that is my experience.
Hyperlite
Active member
interesting, I never bothered looking into the differences before. Sounds like cable will have more of a tendancy to get flooded, which is why people are worried about lag. DSL is nice but SBC really needs to keep working on upgrading their networks. Right now my connection is only slightly better than ISDN and keep trying to get my gf to tell me when our contract expires so I can sign us up for the brand spanking new cables lines that were just run to our pad.
, gotta go pester her for her account ino 
, gotta go pester her for her account ino 
JamesBrown
Active member
RCN cable rocks.. ive got 7mb down/ 800Kb up. 
the only lag ive noticed lately is the upload. My download is pretty consistant.
the only lag ive noticed lately is the upload. My download is pretty consistant.
deaconblues
Roads Scholar
the one thing about cable is, once the 'loop' is completed, it's pretty stable. About the only thing that can shut down cable, aside from a network failure, is a backhoe.
DSL can get screwed with by a lot of things... especially if you have old crappy phone wiring anywhere between the modem and the DSL LT card (usually in a central office, or more recently a bunker with a fiber trunk to the office).
And then there's those schlemeils working as telco line techs (doesn't matter which telco)... they see what they think is a 'free pair' and wire it up, unaware that they just cut someone's broadband off.
Personally, I'm waiting for 'fiber to the premise' -- basically you'll have a little optical/copper interface on the side of your house, and the data transfer rates/bandwidth will blow away pretty much everything out there. It'll be awhile (5-10 years, probably, what with all the legal logistics surrounding it) but it'll be effin' worth the wait.
Oh yah, I've been remiss on getting job info for you guys... time to bug the tech center director again, i'd guess. But, you can do some calling around to the tech contract agencies, and if they tell you the gig is in San Ramon, it's a good bet it's us.
DSL can get screwed with by a lot of things... especially if you have old crappy phone wiring anywhere between the modem and the DSL LT card (usually in a central office, or more recently a bunker with a fiber trunk to the office).
And then there's those schlemeils working as telco line techs (doesn't matter which telco)... they see what they think is a 'free pair' and wire it up, unaware that they just cut someone's broadband off.
Personally, I'm waiting for 'fiber to the premise' -- basically you'll have a little optical/copper interface on the side of your house, and the data transfer rates/bandwidth will blow away pretty much everything out there. It'll be awhile (5-10 years, probably, what with all the legal logistics surrounding it) but it'll be effin' worth the wait.
Oh yah, I've been remiss on getting job info for you guys... time to bug the tech center director again, i'd guess. But, you can do some calling around to the tech contract agencies, and if they tell you the gig is in San Ramon, it's a good bet it's us.
Sprinklerhead
Ruining biker reputations
Fiber to the house is already out in some areas. I have a friend that just bought a condo in San Jose in a new complex with fiber. He's getting 8Mb symmetrical for like $40 a month. Goes all the way up to 1Gb symmetrical for like three something a month...lucky bastard...
deaconblues
Roads Scholar
yah there are a few places that pull in an OC3 and then resell data access to the tenants. Bay Apartments in San Jose is one such place.... back before the dot-bomb, we were making some money off of folks that lived there. Starting rate for frac-t1 was $89 a month.
What I'm talking about is more universal.. entire neighborhoods, or even whole towns/cities. Essentially the large telcos are looking to get away from wireline and go entirely to optical, because the existing copper is too limiting, and a lot of it dates back to the 50's (or earlier). The problem is that 'last mile' -- between the house and the local substation. Been staring that one in the face for a decade or more, now... but it's getting to the point where it's not as cost-prohibitive as it once was, therefore it looks good on a executive summary or a balance sheet.
What I'm talking about is more universal.. entire neighborhoods, or even whole towns/cities. Essentially the large telcos are looking to get away from wireline and go entirely to optical, because the existing copper is too limiting, and a lot of it dates back to the 50's (or earlier). The problem is that 'last mile' -- between the house and the local substation. Been staring that one in the face for a decade or more, now... but it's getting to the point where it's not as cost-prohibitive as it once was, therefore it looks good on a executive summary or a balance sheet.