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| whats the difference between cable broadband and DSL broadband?
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Good question!
The difference is 2 things.
1.) Cable Networking is shared with everyone in your neighborhood. DSL is point-to-point (not shared).
2.) one comes from the cable company, the other the phone company.
That's it.
Both offer a variety of dedicated and non-dedicated upload and download speeds (the more is better).
Both provide a very decent experience, when they are not lagging!
Tytus
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| I have telstra broadband in australia is that DSL?
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| To answer your (which one do I have?) question... If you see a telephone line coming from the telephone wall jack (with some sort of an adapter), into an external box that connects either an RJ45 or USB cable to your pc for the Inernet, then you likely have DSL. If you see a long round cable coming from the wall, into an external box that connects either an RJ45 or USB cable to your pc for the Inernet, then you likely have Cable. I have cable broadband, but not cable tv. You don't have to have cable tv to get a cable broadband setup (at least here in the US that's true). If the cable company tells you that you have to, there are laws against them selling you something you don't need in order to get something you want. Both Earthlink and Time Warner (as well as countless others)here in the US provide cable broadband Inetnet (sort of). Time Warner is a cable media/medium/paininthe@$$ provider. Roadrunner is their ISP. Earthlink is their own ISP. Earthlink uses Time Warner's cable network to faciliate the function of their ISP, likely pays Time Warner a nice fee for this, but does it at a lower price than Time Warner - WITH NO DIFFERENCE except the price. If you have a hardware issue, you'll always end up dealing with Time Warner, and in my case, I will be working on my horror story for posting at a later date... when the story is over.
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Tytus (7/12/2006)
Good question!
The difference is 2 things.
1.) Cable Networking is shared with everyone in your neighborhood. DSL is point-to-point (not shared).
2.) one comes from the cable company, the other the phone company.
That's it.
Both offer a variety of dedicated and non-dedicated upload and download speeds (the more is better).
Both provide a very decent experience, when they are not lagging!
Tytus
close but not totaly right
DLS isnt shared in the last mile like cable
IT IS shared at the CO wile thay may have more bandwith then a cable node there are many more clients on the CO so it can even out
DSL also degrades with dist. from the CO or remote termanal 1600FT is the limit for any real speed after this speeds drop to under 1Mbps DS
cable since its fiber to the last mile dosnt have the dist limit but you take a hit in bandwith as theres less to goaround and some times cable co. will over sell a node
so each as there falts
unless your luck and live were FiOS or U-verse is rolling
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