Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:09:28 03/30/01
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On March 30, 2001 at 04:48:53, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:
>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?
>
>
>There's for me much confusion over the naming of DSL, and in the US some
>companies even call cable "DSL".
>
>For me "cable" is using the connection of your cable tv for Internet as well.
>(A)DSL is using your own, private telephone line.
>
>The variant I have is ADSL, which stands for Asynchronous Digital Subscriber
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Asymmetric
ADSL offers more bandwidth _to_ your home connection than _away_ from your
home connection. This makes perfect sense for Netscape, etc, since most
of the traffic is _to_ your computer. For me, it is different in that I
do a pretty equal amount of uploading and downloading to my office machine
from home.
>line; it means download bandwidth is bigger than upload bandwidth. Chosen
>because obviously as a regular user you download more than you upload.
>
>DSL here uses the regular phone line - the higher frequencies- so you'll keep
>your phone connection for voice calls.
The problem is that you must be pretty close to your local office to be able
to get DSL or ISDN even. I am 16,000 feet (by wire) from my local office and
I can't get either.
I can only get roughly 26K modem connections even though I have 56KB modems
for the same reason.
>
>
>The experience here with cable is bad. My brother has a cable connection.
>Connection almost never surpasses ISDN speed (single), and speed changes very
>often. Basically this is caused by the fact that you share a connection with
>others in your vicinity. As almost all Dutch have cable (some 98%) chances are
>big that at evening when everybody is using his computer connection will become
>slow.
>But most of the time Cable wiring is more up-to-date, fibre, and I think able to
>surpass a lot of Mbits in the second. However here it really doesn't.
>
>
>The (A)DSL connections for the common people here is mostly cut off to 1Mbit,
>but relatively cheap. (to keep data traffic withing limits and be sure for the
>ISP things always work at *that* top speed)
>I had (and still have) some problems with my ISP about service and delivery, but
>basically my ADSL connection is very fast and very stable, and about 15-20 times
>the speed of ISDN (64k) or some 25 times the speed of a regular analogue 56k
>modem (which is less stable than an ISDN-connection.
>If it were not for Win98 :(( 24h/7d online time is possible without cutoffs. In
>the last 6 months I only had maybe two involuntary cutoffs, and maybe once or
>twice because of maintenance.
>Because it is an exclusive, non-shared line, it won't "wobble" and is not
>dependent on how many people are calling
>
>
>My ADSL connection downloads a megabyte in about 8-10 seconds, but remember: if
>everyone decides to download Internet Explorer 6 beta at the same time you
>really won't get that top speed. The connection maybe faster, the server at
>Microsoft at the other end however not.....
>
>Good luck with the choice however.
I don't see why ADSL would slow down with other users. You are using different
pairs of copper...
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