cable or adsl??

[NitRaTe]

yo. does the advantage (off peak) of cable outweigh its disadvantage (peak)? or would u settle for a dedicated line (24/7 same speed) but generally slower than cable?

[PLAYAR]

i've got cable and i'm pretty happy with that.

i got cable cause you couldn't get adsl in my area at the time.

[fat313]

Definitely go for cable if you are in Australia! ADSL only really necessary in Countries like US as there are way too many cable users, in result, slow speed connection.

There are still not enough cable users in Australia compare to other countries to really max out the cable bandwidth. A technician from Telstra told me that. Maybe in the future like 5 years later, then we might have to consider using ADSL, when there are too many cable users.

Cable is cheaper, and way faster than ADSL atm.

[NitRaTe]

thanks guys, the info is greatly appreciated.

[Cubes]

If using ADSL for games you will notice a slower Ping that cable users due to the ppoe or what ever protocol it uses which adds extra overhead.

However with adsl you will transfer faster than cable.

Well thats what I have been told.

My parents have ADSL and it is on the 512mb.

they d/load on average around the 60kb's to 72kb's depending on the server.

Cable is better for gaming where as adsl is better for fast transfers.

ADSL is good though.. No problems with Windows XP Pro..

Boots up connects automatically every time.

For example Playing Unreal Tournament usually the average ping is around 100ms with ADSL.. Cable is around 70 apparently.

Even though with my modem connect I get around 150ms with a good server but the bandwidth is not there as it is with the adsl so if you enter a room with lots of ppls shooting then the modem struggles where as the adsl flows smoothly.

So its not just the ping its also the bandwidth also.

[JiMb0]

You should find that cable allows more bandwidth, period. In most cases you'll get a better ping to the same server on cable rather than DSL, and file transfers with cable are through the roof.

Usually with DSL I get pings of 40-70 to Aus based game servers, compared to most cablers getting 30, really not that noticable.

Incomming on 512/128 is around 60 kbps, compared to cablers who can manage 500 kbps ...

If you can get cable, get it. If you can't, settle for DSL. Both great broadband services.

[Guest Krystian_w]

What about drop outs?

I heard a while ago Telstra had some trouble on its hands because people who had DSL kept dropping out?

Is this still a big problem?

[JiMb0]

Every ISP has some downtime, just gotta hope it's minimal. In my time with DSL, I've only ever had two spots of trouble.

First set up for some reason Netspace make you use your e-mail/password to connect instead of username/password, so I spent about 45 mins using my username until I gave in and called their tech support who sounded rather surprised I didn't know my login was [email protected] ?!!?! Mind you it took me sitting the guy down and getting him to spell out to me what the hell he was using to log in .... it's weird their online tools only require your username/pass to long in .... not very uniform.

The other time just data transfer issue. Called them up to inform of an outage and they denied it for 10 mins with the usual, try this and try that. They even tried to tell me that I hadn't configured the proxy correctly, however this made him look a little stupid after I told him once again that it was with all traffic, not only web based, and that Netspace use a transparant proxy anyway .... Finally got to a team leader who adivsed that they just recieved word from Telstra of a state wide issue with no ETA. He also informed me that Telstra don't post ETA on issues they cannot resolve in a small period of time. The fault was rectified within 2 hours from my call, total of 5 hours downtime.