Difference between ADSL, DSL and Cable broad-band connections?

[RobyG]

I want a high speed (broad-band) connection.
What's the difference between ADSL, DSL and Cable broad-band connections?

Which one do you recommend?

[Chris]

ADSL = Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
DSL = Digital Subscriber Line

The difference bet. them generally speaking is that ADSL can have a different uplink bandwidth from the downlink bandwith (eg. uplink = 128Kbps & downlink=256Kbps). DSL tends to have the same uplink & downlink bandwidth.

Cable bandwidth tends to be higher than DSL's. Right now in Jamaica though the availability of cable broad-band is significantly more limited than that of DSL, and DSL's availability in Ja. isn't that wide-spread

Overall, if you're fortunate to live in an area both cable and DSL are available, you'll have to compare both packages for price, features, support, etc. and make your decision. Otherwise, go with whatever is available in your area for now.

[Kbee]

I hate so be a showoff ;D however this is the cable speed i get .
Please note the value is MB/s and not Mb/s , however my average bandwidth about 900KB/s. All this for the low price of $21us per month (less than my moms dialup fee).
I doubt that C&W will allow this, since this may just mean mom and pop phone services .
-Kurt

[Chris]

Make room at your place, I'm moving in tomorrow ;D I don't think ANY local broadband solution can match that type of bandwidth :'(

[Kbee]

I have optimum online , it is the fastest cable modem provider in the US , they also give static IPs (well it is dhcp with a very long lease).
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/cable,opt
i just did the speed test and maxed out at 2MB/s

-Kurt
* Average* sustained results below 8) 8)

[Chris]

At first glance I said "ah-ah, gotcha". These figures are in Kbps not KBps > But when I did the math, the test report is showing a d/l rate of 7460Kbps = 7.2Mbps = 932KBps = 0.9MBps and u/l rate of 941Kbps = 0.9Mbps = 117.6KBps = 0.12MBps. WOW 8) I think you have more bandwidth than some of the smaller ISPs in Jamaica! Share some nuh ;D

[RobyG]

Kurt,

1.1MB/s download speed is amazing and quite unbelievable. I really wish I had that at home.

[carey]

I was going to ask the question:

How is [glow=red,2,300]bits per second[/glow] different from [glow=red,2,300]bytes per second[/glow]?

I didn't have to ask that?! The real question is, "how do you really calculate those equations?" Can anyone give me a lesson? ???

[Chris]

[quote author=newtoo? link=board=1;threadid=3;start=0#145 date=1027369120]
I was going to ask the question:

How is [glow=red,2,300]bits per second[/glow] different from [glow=red,2,300]bytes per second[/glow]?

I didn't have to ask that?! The real question is, "how do you really calculate those equations?" Can anyone give me a lesson? ???
[/quote]

8 (b)its = 1 (B)yte and 1 K(B)yte = ~ 1,000 (B)ytes (actually 1,024 Bytes)
therefore 1 KBps = ~ 1000 Bps = ~ (1,000*8) bps = ~ 8,000 bps.

Remember that dial-up bandwidth is typically sub 56 Kbps = (56/8) KBps = 7 KBps. It's important to remember and recognise the b's (bits) vs B's (bytes).

Hope this helps.

[carey]

Yep it does
A teacher could use that
and look how simple it was :-[
It must be the midnight neuron congestion.