I hate sound reiterate what has been said, but I would go with Comcast. I have had a high speed Internet connection for over a dozen years and clearly think cable is better. I currently have Version DSL and will change back to Comcast as soon as I can afford it. With DSL it does make a large difference how far you are from the 'hub'. Although I pay for 'up to 3mbs' I actually get 1/2 that. "Fine print - up to". Because I am far away from them I get the lower service. When I tried to drop it to a lower service, 5 nights out of 5 I lost service. I would have to call their support (which is not very good) and have to have them 'run a test' which seemed to open up the service, till the next night. When I went back to the higher service I have been fine without a problem. But I did not call tech support for cable in 10 years of cable service as I did in one week with Verizon. In general I would go with cable (unless you can get the new fiber optic service). Donald G Swyers dswyers at yahoo.com (413) 585-0356 [home] (860) 922-9837 [Cell] ________________________________ From: Val Nelson <val at valnelson.com> To: Hidden-Tech Listserv <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> Sent: Wed, March 10, 2010 1:59:33 PM Subject: [Hidden-tech] DSL vs cable internet for office ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. 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/b908b7c5/attachment.html