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1. Not all cable is faster than all DSL. You have to look at what speed plans are offered. Reliability is not really an issue, but cable *is* shared bandwidth - if they oversell their bandwidth, it *can* get slow at peak times.
2. There are no residential plans with symmetric upload and download speeds unless you want to pay through the nose. Again, you have to examine the plans. Most cable these days is anywhere from 1.5mbps to 4mbps down, and 256kbps up. Most DSL is the same up and anywhere from 768kbps to 3mbps down.
3. 100mbps (NOT kbps) is the reported speed of the NIC. The actual speed will be strictly determined by the broadband speed plan, and there are very few that are faster than 4mbps.
4. 95kBps is reasonable for a DSL at the range limit. My DSL is advertised as a 768kbps download and I get 82kBps downloads (max theoretical is 96kBps but there's TCP/IP and PPPoE overhead of about 15%). Advertised 1.5mbps cable will get you about 180kBps downloads. Cable is not range dependent like DSL.
b = bits
B = bytes
8 bits per byte
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