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Which is faster high speed cable or high speed phone internet acess

By griffyz Asked Apr 12 2007 10:17AM
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by Anonymous on Apr 12, 2007 at 2:06 pm Permalink

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It depends on what type of service is offered in your area. You can pay extra for more bandwidth on EITHER type of service, depending on which providers are available and what they offer. I'd lean towards DSL, because you won't have to share your bandwidth with nearby users as you do with cable, plus there is more security since your line is dedicated and not shared with other people, however the availability of DSL is rather limited in comparison to cable since you have to live within a certain distance of the telephone switches in order to get DSL.
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by anglrckx on Apr 13, 2007 at 7:28 am Permalink

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cable is unless you are really close to the CO. I have had it faster on DSl before.
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by LUnger on Apr 13, 2007 at 7:25 am Permalink

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The fastest networks are Fiber to the Home which can get 100 MBPS. Japans networks have that and are the same price or cheaper than our cable connections. The only one building it here is Verizon. AT&T is beginning Fiber to the Node which gets about 25 MBPS which is also faster than most cable, but there is not much of it yet.
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by TRK360 on Apr 12, 2007 at 10:19 am Permalink

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Cable, there are better quality lines used to route the information.
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Avatar Anonymous Apr, 13 2007 at 07:55 AM
LOL, no kidding, I think with the exception of fiber optics cables which are costly and not likely to be brought to many existing communities.
Avatar TRK360 Apr, 13 2007 at 09:40 AM
Thank you doobie, I should apologize for my lack of specificity, I was referring to fiber-optics technology.
Avatar jerv Apr, 13 2007 at 07:30 PM
It was relatively recently that they even ran fiber-optic lines into our state, and it took a couple of more years before you could get non-satellite broadband outside of three cities near the Atlantic coast. Hell, I can't even connect dial-up at more than 26.4K due to the old phone lines here.

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by Evanfris25 on Jul 17, 2009 at 3:32 am Permalink

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cable.
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by Jane G on Jul 17, 2009 at 3:23 am Permalink

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That is probably going to vary by country and location within that country. Here in the UK I'm fairly sure the fastest downloads are from 50Mbps cable. You can compare all the offerings here:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/isps.html
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by -Icy- on Jul 17, 2009 at 12:22 am Permalink

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cable... i use dsl now and my dsl is even faster than cable.
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