On Friday, April 8, 2016 at 1:22:55 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:29:58 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 4/8/2016 1:06 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Friday, April 8, 2016 at 11:45:12 AM UTC-4, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 04/07/2016 03:01 PM, wrote:

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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.


I'd like to see the actual claim.

A claim that DSL is "better" because you don't share your connection means
nothing unless you back that up with some numbers.

If I take an isolated back road to Grandma's house, I don't have to
share the road with anyone. However, if I take a shared highway, I can
get there in half the time. Is the back road "better" merely because
I didn't have to share it?


The claim made sense when cable speeds were very close to DSL speeds.
If DSL was 3 mb and cable was 5 mb sharing would cut it back quite a bit
at peak times. Potentially it could be slower than DSL

Now that DSL is 6 mb and cable is 60 mb or more, sharing cuts it down
just a tiny be that you'd not notice or care about.

DSL has speeded up here too. I am getting a real 10mb over copper and
it can be 20 if you are close enough to the fiber front end. FiOS is
really speedy when it is working.

Back when DSL first hit Birmingham, our shop had two POTS lines and because of the incompetent AAM CSR's at the Bellsouth office, we wound up with 1.5mbs DSL on both lines. We told them to leave it alone because we knew if we asked for it to be corrected, they'd frak it up. I don't remember all the details but we took an old computer, put two NIC's in it and loaded it with a Linux server program that allowed us to bond the two DSL connections together to get more speed. Gosh that was a long time ago. It's a lot easier now than it was back then. o_O

http://www.wikihow.com/Combine-Two-Internet-Connections

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