Cable beats DSL in speed race
 

My cable connection is crap; always thought DSL kicked its butt.


Cable beats DSL in speed race


By Jim Hu
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
April 22, 2003, 9:50 AM PT


Cable modems are outpacing digital subscriber lines in terms of connection speeds, as household broadband access continues to increase, according to a study released Tuesday.

The number of Internet users accessing the Web through home broadband connections rose 9 percent between October 2002 and March 2003, according to Net measurement firm ComScore Networks. That brought the total percentage of broadband connected households to 28 percent of all homes with Internet access.

However, despite signs of consumers' appetite for broadband, connections speeds vary depending on whether they use DSL or cable modems, according to ComScore. Individual service providers also showed differences in access speed.


The study said cable modems were 50 percent faster on average than DSL connections. According to data tabulated during February, Cablevision reportedly had the fastest connections, averaging 800kbps, or 13kbps above the industry average. Comcast came in second at 794kbps, Cox third with 688kbps, and Adelphia last with 575kbps. Time Warner Cable, the nation's second-largest cable television network, was not included in the study.

DSL providers showed huge swings in performance. AT&T WorldNet averaged 762kbps, or 63 percent faster than the industry average of 467kbps. SBC came in second with 584kbps, EarthLink was third with 369kbps and Qwest was fourth with 240kbps. Notable omissions from the study included Verizon and BellSouth.

According to ComScore, competition for broadband services will continue to intensify, leading to pricing pressure and greater importance placed on performance.

Shit.. im on cable with 300k download and 100k upload. I wish fucking 800k

mmm speed.

I'm on SBC DSL at home and it's by far the quickest DSL connection I've had. Rock solid too.

Same. the 768/128 was great ($30)...I went to the 1500/384 plan ($60) and it's fantastic!

t-1 babbby

:thumbsup :1orglaugh

cable is more reliable,, damn DSL lines are very sensitive and they can go down

My cable's been dragging ass for over a month now...I wish I was even at 300K!

What company is SBC?

Very american stats. Lowest DSL you can get in canada is 1.5mbps down, 500kbps up. Highest I have seen is 7mbps down 1mbps up. In terms on our cable vs 1.5 adsl. It is approx the same if you done over a 1 month period. Had more problems with the shitty cable lines over the adsl ones. Each city probably has one that is better then the other.
ZoiNk

I love my Cablevision!

Aren't they the old Bell South mixed with Ameritech and Pacific Telesis after the buyouts they got this new name.

connected on t3 here :thumbsup

my cable is 3.0mbps down, 256k up

my download is about 250KB/sec (2,000kbps) but the upload cant go over 10KB/sec (80kbps) and it slows down my connection badly when i upload something :mad:

Test your connection out:

http://webservices.cnet.com/bandwidth/

http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp

http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

http://promos.mcafee.com/speedometer/

http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=1

Get the top tier of cable..Running at
1.5 meg down and 1024 kbs up
Kicks Ass !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where do you get 7Mbps down and 1Mbps up? :eek2

I want some! :thumbsup

Toker,

wish I had those upload speeds.

I have att/comcast now cable.

around 3300 down at dsl reports, but only like 180-220 up.

hey not so bad I guess, some places have it worse

Uploading files takes no time, I do remember those old 28k phone days tho..LOL

i am using comcast also, but they said i can't go faster than 1500
so i just bought another line

Bro,

I started on 300 baud modems in the old days. When our bbs got bigger we got 9600 and 14.4 baud modems, I though I was king shit:)

As I say all the time, god bless the internet and those who made it up.

i'm on cable and i'm at 597 kilobits per second...is that decent?

Playa,

I thought everyone on att / comcast got upgraded to 1800/256,

dsl reports said that was all done awhile ago.

I bought the ultralink pkg, so get the 3000k down.

Here's the actual plan..

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I have 3000 down / 700 up but I would LOVE to get 7000 / 1000 :thumbsup

hahahha he posted on every board

http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/sh...threadid=53496

http://www.newbiewebmasters.com/show...&threadid=5480

Well - my results from the above tests on cable connection are:

1. -Cnet - 1440
2. PCPitstop - 1331
3 879
4. McAfee - 982

damn if that's the case, my shit sucks...maybe my active downloading/uploading on kazaa is affecting my speed...if it isn't, I'm pissed

Im pushing 380 each way up and down on sbc for $30 a month i cant complain some people get up to 850 on sbc tho depending on the location.

Cnet 2396
PCP Transmission Speed 2573
BP 2.6 megabits per second
McAfee 2.344 Mbps (300 KBps)

Damn my internet is slow today.