My personal experience in this area is we have a superb internet connection from Comcast in any area they serve whilst DSL ranges from OK in downtown Springfield to outright horrible in other places. DSL is very touchy about the quality of the line and distance involved, cable does not seem affected by this. For example I have a customer who beats the hell out of their Comcast business connection with video and graphics plus 6 digital voice lines and I don't recall it ever going down in 3 years. Another has DSL in Springfield and I get a call every 4 to 6 months that it stopped working and reboots don't always fix it...sometimes they just have to wait it out. Kevin Phillips KPIT Consulting kevin at kpitconsulting.com Office (413) 420-0212 Cell (413) 330-7789 www.kpitconsulting.com <http://www.kpitconsulting.com/> www.wmassforums.com <http://www.wmassforums.com/> _____ From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Val Nelson Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:00 PM To: Hidden-Tech Listserv Subject: [Hidden-tech] DSL vs cable internet for office Hi HT friends, Sorry to ask this age-old question but I feel overwhelmed by the tech talk when talking to Comcast and Verizon. Can you help give me some perspective on these options? I need to set up Internet access in my office and these are the two choices in my price range: Comcast cable internet $59.95/month * Downloads 6-12 mb, uploads 1-2 mb * "Internet speeds up to 15 times faster than DSL" Verizon DSL $49.99/month * "Up to 5.0M" It will mostly be for one user at a time, but occasionally up to 5 users at a time. I'm in a building that probably has no Comcast users yet because they just installed it here, but eventually might have more. Will I notice a difference in speed between these two options? I'm not doing any major downloading or uploading but I give my browser a run for its money. Which option would you do? Thank you!! Val -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20100311/a30fadee/attachment-0001.html