Poll: DSL or Broadband

Ressurection · 16/05/2010 02:02 AM

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PLZDELETE · 16/05/2010 02:11 AM

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)

PSPkiller · 16/05/2010 02:39 AM

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.

ZiNgA BuRgA · 16/05/2010 02:48 AM

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

PLZDELETE · 16/05/2010 02:52 AM

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)

Mr. Shizzy · 16/05/2010 02:59 AM

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..

S7* · 16/05/2010 04:11 AM

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

xero1 · 16/05/2010 05:12 AM

(16/05/2010 02:59 AM)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.

Assassinator · 16/05/2010 05:51 AM

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.

[ReeD] · 16/05/2010 06:02 AM

V-DSL in germany :o
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i voted for Broadband Specky

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