DSL vs. CABLE modem, enlighten me

Unit 5302 · 02-24-2002, 08:36 PM

AOL's normal rate for unlimited access, which you have to have is $24/mo. Plus the $31/mo for the DSL service. I do not know how it's billed. If it goes through the phone company, you'd be billed on a phone line and be forced to pay federal access charges, 911 taxes, and other service fees by the phone company like I was. It will all come up to no less than $60-65/mo.

If the Cable modem network is setup well, you will blow the doors off most DSL services (including AOL's) for less money. If the network is crappy, your service may be slow because every user on the network slows the network down.

On a side note, DSL isn't immune to that either. Even though they use it as an arguement against cable modems. I personally know how it works. They service provider sells too many DSL lines for their network to support based on the idea only a certain percentage of people will be on at a given time. Then, they give you a non-static IP address, and loop you in a router while it skips from user to user to user, like a fricken token ring network. It can become quite frustrating when you DSL slows down to dialup data transfer rates because of the looping.

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02-24-2002, 08:36 PM	#2
Unit 5302 Registered Member Join Date: May 1999 Posts: 5,246	AOL's normal rate for unlimited access, which you have to have is $24/mo. Plus the $31/mo for the DSL service. I do not know how it's billed. If it goes through the phone company, you'd be billed on a phone line and be forced to pay federal access charges, 911 taxes, and other service fees by the phone company like I was. It will all come up to no less than $60-65/mo. If the Cable modem network is setup well, you will blow the doors off most DSL services (including AOL's) for less money. If the network is crappy, your service may be slow because every user on the network slows the network down. On a side note, DSL isn't immune to that either. Even though they use it as an arguement against cable modems. I personally know how it works. They service provider sells too many DSL lines for their network to support based on the idea only a certain percentage of people will be on at a given time. Then, they give you a non-static IP address, and loop you in a router while it skips from user to user to user, like a fricken token ring network. It can become quite frustrating when you DSL slows down to dialup data transfer rates because of the looping.