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It`s hard to say and depends on the cable companies setup. Like in my previous example at my parents house, 6pm - 8pm the whole neighborhood is online, teenagers on a myspace page streaming 6 videos at once, etc. So speed gets pretty slow. But because it`s semi-rural, I`m assuming the cable company is limited by the amount of bandwidth they can provide, thus cramming hundreds of users down a skinny pipe. It won`t necessarily disconnect you from the internet, requests may take a little longer and some streaming audio/video will be choppy at best. Reminds me of the dial up days.

Not trying to dissuade you from cable or anything, but it will come down to how the rest of the users on your pipe will play.


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A lot depends on your location. Like previousely said, w/cable you are sharing, so in a highly populated area, w/a lot of customers on the same service you could see quality issues. At the same time, you can see DSL quality issues if you are far away from the telco switching station.

Personally, I`ve always used cable and it has been outstanding. I have yet to have any problems and I`ve used it for about 9yrs now, had it in 3 different states, and 4 different providers. I have literally had less than 24hrs of downtime all together. And cannot recall any slowness issues, ever.