Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:05:26 03/30/01
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On March 30, 2001 at 00:03:57, K. Burcham wrote: >if you have cable----can you tell me some of your pros and cons. >if you have dsl------can you tell me some of your pros and cons. >which is faster and more dependable for online gaming? >i have heard that cable gets slow in the evening and on weekends when the >traffic is higher? how much slower? is this true for you? > > >thanks The answers are pretty easy to explain, but actual performance is more iffy. 1. DSL uses a dedicated pair of copper wires from your home to your local switching office. So whatever bandwidth you can get (it varies depending on how far you are from the local office) will be pretty constant. 2. Cable uses a shared coaxial cable, very much like the old "thickwire ethernet' LAN connections we used 15 years ago. This means you _share_ total bandwidth with your neighbors. If they don't have a computer, or aren't using the net, cable will fly. If everybody gets on at once, it will drag. Simple summary is that DSL is pretty constant in bandwidth, while cable will only get slower as more people sign up and use it.
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