I agree. I have used
both. All I wrote about was personal prefernce so sorry if it seemed I was
flaming or whatever. just stating what I like more. ;)
Happy
Hunting.
Metiphisto
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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