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WhatsThisBoxFor? · 07-19-2004, 01:14 PM

There is the obvious - one comes down a cable line, the other a phone line. (But you already knew that). I believe that a Cable connection is shared between the neighbourhood (hence why my 750K cable goes up to 200KBps sometimes, yet me friend who connects to a different place only goes up to 100KBps, unless its 3 in the mourning.) Yet with *DSL you get a direct connection to the exchange, and it is capped there. Also, at least here in the UK, DSL comes standard with a USB modem, and my cable a dual ethernet and USB modem (one or the other, not both).

07-19-2004, 01:14 PM	#2
WhatsThisBoxFor? PCMech: Saving Lives Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: England, the United Kingdom Posts: 1,839	There is the obvious - one comes down a cable line, the other a phone line. (But you already knew that). I believe that a Cable connection is shared between the neighbourhood (hence why my 750K cable goes up to 200KBps sometimes, yet me friend who connects to a different place only goes up to 100KBps, unless its 3 in the mourning.) Yet with *DSL you get a direct connection to the exchange, and it is capped there. Also, at least here in the UK, DSL comes standard with a USB modem, and my cable a dual ethernet and USB modem (one or the other, not both). __________________