I've used both and gotten great performance from both.
In theory, DSL is supposed to give you your own
dedicated bandwidth though, vs. shared bandwidth of
cable modems, however I have cable modem and have
rarely, if ever, had and connection speed issues. I
think either way you will be happy.
Wyja
--- Clint Magnuson <
blizzard15@...> wrote:
> I have recently gotten the availability of cable and
> DSL in my area for
> about the same price. Cable advertises as being
> faster at peak times, but
> there is that "slow down" thing. I was just
> wondering what you all think
> would be better for EQ, cable or dsl. Thanks in
> advance =)
>
> -Kendan Boozehound
> 50th druid of e'ci
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Travis Parrent <tparrent@...>
> To: <EQ_Necromancer@egroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 7:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [EQ_Necromancer] Cable Modem question
>
>
> > FYI I use a cable modem and the "slow down"
> experience of multiple users
> > being on is still MUCH better than any dial up
> connection. When my
> friends
> > are over on weekends I easily support 5 people
> zoning, etc. at the same
> > time. However I use comcast cable out of the
> Detroit area, it may be
> > different depending on the company. I believe
> comcast has a very large
> pipe
> > to the inet supporting their users. (Multiple T3's
> i believe)
> >
> > I personally will try to avoid playing eq on a
> dial up after playing on my
> > cable modem and friends DSL. I can literally see
> friends on a modem keep
> > backstepping while there connection catches up,
> etc. I have 1 friend that
> > has a key to my apartment and brings his computer
> over to play rather than
> > deal with dial up. :) These are my experiences.
> >
> > Don't think that you won't ever get lag though.
> Sometimes it is just
> server
> > side lag (i.e. Verant)
> >
> >
> >
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