Well, DSL imho is the better option at this point, because broadband as it exists right now won't survive. The upstream bandwidth that you use costs more than what your ISP charges you, they lose money.
At least with DSL more often than not you're dealing with telco, so another T3 at a CO doesn't cost them as much as it'd cost anyone else.
Think about it this way...
I have DSL at 40 dollars a month, 1500 down and 128k up. The cheapest I've seen an ISP get upstream bandwidth is 150 dollars per megabit, do the math. I pay less than a third of what my available bandwidth costs. The solution to this is to oversell. Broadband providers, especially cable, in their shortsightedness thought they could oversell their networks to the 20:1 or 30:1 ratios that dialup ISPs do, but that can't happen. They advertise an "always on" connection, but you can't stay online all the time without a speed degrade because they don't have enough 'speed' to give you. Hence people get mad and stop paying for unreliable service, hence said service goes bankrupt and gets bought by TimeWarner/AOL, voila
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I don't know what AOL's plans are for the cable network that they own, but they're
still AOL, so if I were you I wouldn't wait around to find out. AOL isn't about reliability or service or any of that, as we all know, they're about "so easy to use no wonder it's number one", right?