geepondy
Flashlight Enthusiast
A slow Friday night for me so I thought I'd post this and see if I could elicit any responses.
With over a thousand members CPF members now, I'm sure a great deal of you have broadband cable internet access and hopefully a few posters have DSL such as myself and I was wondering what were your personal opinions and experiences between the two.
I've had DSL for the past year and a half simply because it was the first available high speed alternative in my town. Now cable broadband is also available. The DSL advertises 640K download and 128K upload. The broadband advertises "up to" 1.5M download and I'm not sure about upload. Because of the apparent speed increase at about the same price, I've thought about switching to the cable but not after comparing speed results with other users. When I check my speed by going here, http://computingcentral.msn.com/internet/speedtest.asp I consistantly get download speeds between 400 and 450 kbs regardless of the time of day. Avoiding the web and downloading files from a newserver or FTP site, I average over 500 kbs. A couple of cable user friend's have done similar speed tests and although sometimes they're slightly faster then me but nowhere near the 1.5 meg bits advertised speed but often times they are slower then me and sometimes they are very slow not much faster then dial up, but inconsistant speeds all the time. I had DSL installation problems and downtimes at the beginning but over the past six months to a year, it's been much better and I'm up consistently weeks at a time. My service by the way is Verizon.
Hopefully other's may weigh in with their experiences and post speed results. I'm not being snobbish and I feel for dial up users. When I go to my parent's in northern Vermont, the fastest I can get is 26.8 as there is over five miles of copper between them and the local phone CO.
With over a thousand members CPF members now, I'm sure a great deal of you have broadband cable internet access and hopefully a few posters have DSL such as myself and I was wondering what were your personal opinions and experiences between the two.
I've had DSL for the past year and a half simply because it was the first available high speed alternative in my town. Now cable broadband is also available. The DSL advertises 640K download and 128K upload. The broadband advertises "up to" 1.5M download and I'm not sure about upload. Because of the apparent speed increase at about the same price, I've thought about switching to the cable but not after comparing speed results with other users. When I check my speed by going here, http://computingcentral.msn.com/internet/speedtest.asp I consistantly get download speeds between 400 and 450 kbs regardless of the time of day. Avoiding the web and downloading files from a newserver or FTP site, I average over 500 kbs. A couple of cable user friend's have done similar speed tests and although sometimes they're slightly faster then me but nowhere near the 1.5 meg bits advertised speed but often times they are slower then me and sometimes they are very slow not much faster then dial up, but inconsistant speeds all the time. I had DSL installation problems and downtimes at the beginning but over the past six months to a year, it's been much better and I'm up consistently weeks at a time. My service by the way is Verizon.
Hopefully other's may weigh in with their experiences and post speed results. I'm not being snobbish and I feel for dial up users. When I go to my parent's in northern Vermont, the fastest I can get is 26.8 as there is over five miles of copper between them and the local phone CO.