A case where cable broadband crushes DSL, and crushes it good
I feel for this guy:
He wanted to replace cable broadband with cheaper DSL, but as you can see, his DSL speed is abysmal. (FYI, my mom's DSL speed in North Hollywood is similar; at my house in Van Nuys we do quite a bit better, but nothing stellar either).
If you're good at doing math in your head (I used a calculator), you can see that download speed on cable is 68 times faster than on DSL at his location.
Upload speed is only 10 times faster on cable.
In his area:
Cost of cable broadband: $65
Cost of DSL broadband: $40
He does mention that the cable service does go out a bit, and speeds can drop when there's a lot of activity from other users, but the promise of a service that's 6,800 percent faster ... the mind is boggled.
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Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
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