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DSL or Cable

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LineBoarder
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which do u think is better, cheaper, faster, etc.. I dunno which one to get




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Apr 21 2003 9:22PM
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weazelzb
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i have cable. sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking fast. i hear its faster than DSL also and not too expensive. def. worth it


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Apr 21 2003 9:25PM
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skier_chick_360
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Oh man I wish I had to make that decision... for me it was dial-up or umm lets see oh ya dial up... we dont have cable access where we are so ya no high speed connection for Aeden...
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Apr 21 2003 10:07PM
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Lateralis
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i have ADSL!



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Apr 21 2003 10:08PM
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yeti
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depends what the caps are like. Cable is much faster though for the most part.

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Apr 21 2003 10:14PM
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NomenClature
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cable is only faster if you are the only one on your block. it is shared if there are to many people on at once in about a 4 block radius then it is SOOOO slow.
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Apr 21 2003 10:16PM
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Itsbackfliptime
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i got cable like 3 years ago when it was pretty new and it was crazy fast. Now its fast but since everyone has it now its getting kinda slow.

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Apr 21 2003 10:17PM
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pag
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yeah Cable is better than dsl if not a lot of ppl use it
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Apr 21 2003 10:24PM
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LineBoarder
Posts: 3762 - Karma: 84
Yeah, whats the price difference in the two?





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Apr 21 2003 10:35PM
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jarossamdb7
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for all ya who have dial up you can get sattlelight. it is icfuckingspensive and not quite as fast as dsl but you can get it. cabel is by far the best!


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Apr 21 2003 10:54PM
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SaraJ
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cabel is good. I live in an area with a bunch of old people so almost none of them even have internet.

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Apr 21 2003 10:57PM
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Lord_Piot
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my cable is awsome

no caps
steady and realiable speeds

i was alwayd hardcore DSL only but cable is sooo much better.
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Apr 21 2003 10:59PM
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cko
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I've had both and I much prefer DSL, it's probably about 90% the speed of cable but its always the same. Cable sucks because when you have busy times it gets very very slow.




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Apr 21 2003 10:59PM
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SaraJ
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Very true. Cable can get extremely slow and if ur playing online games such as tribes or cs, the lag sux.

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Apr 21 2003 11:01PM
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FreshCoast
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Depends where you live, DSL is usally a stable speed and much better for people in heavily populated areas like a city. It also depends how far you live away from the company offering the service (I forget the technical name for this). Cable is usally a little bit faster but speed can vary a lot depending on usage and the service. Price depends on the company. Just do some research and go what looks better for you.
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Apr 21 2003 11:18PM
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killswitch
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don't you still have to dial up for sattellite? i though you send information via the phone line and download stuff through the sattellite. am i right?
Apr 22 2003 12:21AM
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JayDC7
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get a T3 connection
Apr 22 2003 1:50AM
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z_boarder914
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^bitch. I have dial up, go to hell dial up. and it only operates at half speed for some crazy scrweed up reason. 33Kbps, not worth it
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Apr 22 2003 5:28AM
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linkray
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get dsl. its much more stable,unlike cable, which will slow down a shitload at peak times, and many companies cap your cable upload at like 11kb/s
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Apr 22 2003 10:48AM
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scratchman
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my T1 is nice!!!


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Apr 22 2003 11:00AM
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weazelzb
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i luv my cable. wep pages come up immediately and i download songs very quickly.


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Apr 22 2003 11:26AM
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CTripper
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yeah cables very good, and since my neighborhood is mostly old people, it is always fast since they don't use computers.
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Apr 22 2003 4:22PM
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Skis_to_the_slaughter
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T1 is the best but usually go with dsl it works better and its cheaper.
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Apr 22 2003 4:42PM
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Lord_Piot
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13.21 Gbps OC-255
10 Gbps OC-192
4.976 Gbps OC-96
2.488 Gbps OC-48, STS-48
1.866 Gbps OC-36
1.244 Gbps OC-24
933.12 Mbps OC-18
622.08 Mbps OC-12, STS-12
466.56 Mbps OC-9
155.52 Mbps OC-3, STS-3
100 Mbps CDDI, FDDI, Fast Ethernet, Category 5 cable
51.84 Mbps OC-1, STS-1
44.736 Mbps T-3, DS-3 North America
34.368 Mbps E-3 Europe
20 Mbps Category 4 cable
16 Mbps Fast Token Ring LANs
10 Mbps Thin Ethernet, category 3 cable, cable modem
8.448 Mbps E-2 Europe
6.312 Mbps T-2, DS-2 North America
6.144 Mbps Standard ADSL downstream
4 Mbps Token Ring LANs
3.152 Mbps DS-1c
2.048 Mbps E-1, DS-1 Europe
1.544 Mbps ADSL, T-1, DS-1 North America
128 Kbps ISDN
64 Kbps DS-0, pulse code modulation
56 Kbps 56flex, U.S. Robotics x2 modems,
33.6 Kbps 56flex, x2 modem communications rate
28.8 Kbps V.34, Rockwell V.Fast Class modems
20 Kbps Level 1 cable, minimum cable data speed
14.4 Kbps V.32bis modem, V.17 fax
9600 bps modem speed circa early 1990s
2400 bps modem speed circa 1980s
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Apr 22 2003 4:44PM
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Lord_Piot
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pick from list.
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Apr 22 2003 4:44PM
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killswitch
Posts: 684 - Karma: 110
i never even heard of 13.21 Gbps. where the fuck can you get that? next door to the provider in tokyo or something? that's nuts. are computers even that fast?
Apr 23 2003 1:11AM
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gravteck
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There was somthing on slashdot of some new set up they used at CalTech, and this group got their bandwidth to over 100 gigs, they transferred like 1.8 Terabytes in not too long.
Apr 23 2003 1:57AM
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mammothpunks
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ya there was an article on that on yahoos site. it wouldnt be practical for any type of normal use though


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Apr 23 2003 2:54AM
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lineskier10
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what the hell is a terabyte
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Apr 23 2003 8:47AM
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CMUSkiFreak
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-terabyte = 1000 gigabytes
-the reason some dial up is slow is not what speed modem you have it is the phone lines running to your house can not handle 56k.
-when you have satellite you still have to use a phone line for uploading therefore if you want to game ono a satellite or host ftp or anything of the sort baically you cant.
-good list piot, most universities use a combination of those connections here at CMU they have a couple OC-3 'lines'


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Apr 23 2003 10:25AM
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lineskier10
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cable works for me so i reccomend that
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Apr 23 2003 10:27AM
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z_boarder914
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pilot, you got all that?!?!?! shit!!!
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Apr 23 2003 4:11PM
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Skis_to_the_slaughter
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With cable I get a ping of 300 on games but its fast for everything on the web
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Apr 24 2003 1:33PM
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andyrightcoast
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Its just a list. I have a buisness class cable connection that runs at 1.5Mbps (thats MEGABITS not MEGABYTES. Divide by 8 to get speed in kb/s) which is the equivalent to a T1 connection, but my upstream is horrible, its only around like 400 kbps... ugh... its SUPPOSED to be 768 kbps. The cable is a lot better than DSL i nthis area. The only DSL provider is Verizon, and they have dynamic IP assigning, so every time you connect to DSL it assigns a new IP addy, which I don't like. My IP hadn't changed for like 10 months until yesterday, which sorta pissed me off.

If you live in an area where not many people have cable internet, like it is around here, than get cable in a heartbeat. Get DSL if there are a TON of people with high speed internet in your area.
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Apr 24 2003 1:44PM
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What_A_Wookie
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Cable can be pretty fast, but its getting pretty common around here...so the high volume kinda ruions it from about 6-8 pm

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