Does DSL **** that bad or am I missing something?

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

At home on cable I get ~450kbps d/l's, at work on DSL I get ~60kbps via Rapidshare d/l's.

There's nothing the home office is doing to the network, like capping it or anything- they don't even monitor it.

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[528hz 10+ year member]

If you have a fiber optic line then yeah...cable would be WAY faster.

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

I thought the same thing. The times I used DSL, including when I used it at my mother's house. It was slow and cut out A LOT!

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

There are many different kinds of DSL.

 

[dman4486 5,000+ posts]

speedtest.net

I have ATT DSL ultra and it is great

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

If you have a fiber optic line then yeah...cable would be WAY faster.

No fiber optic.

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

If you have a fiber optic line then yeah...cable would be WAY faster.

wtf? are you serious? I'd take fiber to my house if the option was available.

EDIT: http://www.onnetworks.tv/fibercable.php

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

 

[GabeC 10+ year member]

If you have a fiber optic line then yeah...cable would be WAY faster.

lol fiber optics has NO CAP SPEED. which means you get it as fast as the server can give it. There is no loss of information through fiber optics and right now it's expensive as hell but will someday become the standard.

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

That does blow. My DSL is MUCH faster.

 

[TeamRetribution 10+ year member]

If you have a fiber optic line then yeah...cable would be WAY faster.

Cable is faster period ...we carry more bandwith in the coaxel cable ....now a day theres really no need to have fiber to the curb ...the HFC system is so much smaller and we run much higher freq across it now ...we have what we call direct fiber links ...to hospitals,tv statio etc ...its a much tighter system now ...and yes i do work for a cable company

 

[TDOG 10+ year member]

dsl here, works better than the cable i used to have

 

[zack39648 10+ year member]

 

[jbizzle 5,000+ posts]

Comcast FTW

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

My DSL

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