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i have a DSL connection and a broadband connection, DSL reaches 500kb/s, Broadband reaches 3mb/s, a hard decision indeed.

(should really be in organised randomness)

Isn't DSL technically broadband?

Either way my home "DSL" commection is actually faster (~500KB/s on a good day) than school's "Broadband" fibre optic (~1MB/s) line some of the time. All the schools in the county link back to a central point. If one school in the county is having problems then it affects all the schools in the county. Things drop to sub-dialup speed and a good 3000ms Ping most days.

DSL = digital subscriber line; it's an internet connection which utilises higher frequencies in telephone lines to transmit data.

In Australia, the term "broadband" refers to any internet connection faster than about 200Kbits/sec, so all ADSL connections in Australia are considered "broadband".
It's different depending where you are though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet_access

on wiki, they seem to suggest dsl= phone line internet and broadband = fibre optics internet, but they understand that the term broadband could be used to describe a DSL connection (as all advertising in the UK for a dsl connection does)

I wonder exactly how fast this is:

http://www22.verizon.com/residential/fio...m#features

These guys claim to have 50 mbps dl speeds ?!?
That is tempting..

Over here its all called ADSL. The term "banda ancha" isn't really used anymore.

Mr. Shizzy Wrote: [ -> ]I wonder exactly how fast this is:

http://www22.verizon.com/residential/fio...m#features

These guys claim to have 50 mbps dl speeds ?!?
That is tempting..

This is even more so,

http://www.optimum.com/online/ultra.jsp


"101 Mbps downstream and up to 15 Mbps upstream!"

I've had service from them before at 30/5. The service is good and almost never any downtime.

Don't you mean DSL vs Cable?

In that case, DSL, since over here, cable is expensive as fuck for shitty amounts of download quota.  Actually, internet on a whole here is expensive as fuck and has shitty download quotas (compared to pretty much everywhere else in the world), just cable even more so than DSL.

V-DSL in germany :o
W-lan      =
Lan-Cable =


i voted for Broadband