On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:45:07 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

On 04/07/2016 03:01 PM, wrote:

[snip]

With cable internet, you are sharing a node with a bunch of your
neighbors. Your speed will vary based on what they are doing.

This is often used to claim that DSL is better. the rest of the internet
uses shared connections too.

Certainly the whole internet is a shared resource but when internet
speeds to the node were fairly slow, you could tell when the kids got
home from school because your cable feed dropped to a crawl. I haven't
been on cable for quite a while but based on how often my cable
subscriber neighbors want to skim my wifi, it is still not that
reliable.
I keep my DMZ router turned off unless someone asks me to turn it on
or the kids are here. It sits in the front window with clear line of
sight to the 3 neighbors who want to skim.