2 TV Ads on cable vs. DSL: "Web hog!" "Log off!"

2 Pacific Bell's and Southwestern Bell's TV Ads.: DSL Internet against cable Internet.
jwraysays...

Ya, but it's bullshit. On average I get much higher speeds on cable than on DSL. When DSL is advertized at a certain speed, you won't always get even a quarter of that speed. Your DSL line connects to some base station that has a bottleneck connection to the rest of the internet, so that in effect you're still sharing a limited amount of bandwidth with the neighborhood.

antsays...

>> ^jwray:
Ya, but it's bullshit. On average I get much higher speeds on cable than on DSL. When DSL is advertized at a certain speed, you won't always get even a quarter of that speed. Your DSL line connects to some base station that has a bottleneck connection to the rest of the internet, so that in effect you're still sharing a limited amount of bandwidth with the neighborhood.


This was when DSL and cable were new, and dial-up was still popular.

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