VHS vs. Beta. GM vs. Ford. Pepsi vs. Coke. GSM vs. CDMA/TDMA. Cubs vs. White Sox. Yankees vs. Mets.
Our world is full of choices. We try to make the right one.
Right now, for me, the choice is DSL or Cable Modem at my house. As some of you know, I have recently moved from Atlanta to Pittsburgh, and even after being here a week I still have not hooked up the Internet access at home. (Shame.)
I have two welcome kits sitting on the kitchen counter. One from Verizon for DSL, one from Comcast for a cable modem.
Both sets of hardware were free. Both service plans are $40/month (with six months @ $20).
Now, I've had DSL for a number of years in Atlanta. No problems - probably only a half dozen failures in five years. I was getting 800k-1.2mb/s on my DSL at home.
I've never had an experience with cable modems. The guy who came out to install our cable said that the drop to my house had the capacity for 6mb/s, but that obviously that would slow down as other people on the street logged in, too. He said that they would generally guarantee 1.5 mb/s, which is faster than DSL.
So cable modems seem to win the speed issue. Then there is the issue of dealing with the cable company or dealing with the phone company when there are issues. Nothing like having two crappy choices to pick from.
Well, I'm going to research today and over the weekend and install at least one of them. I think it's honestly going to come down to where I put my desk in the office - close to the cable jack or closer to a phone jack.
-aB
2 comments:
My experience with Comcast was excellent - including the service. YMMV :)
We ended up going with Comcast Cable Modem two weeks ago. The ironic thing was that we signed up for DSL with Verizon way back in early June, with them giving us the typical one week install delay. That was fine.
Yesterday we received a message from Verizon that they were experiencing more delays in getting our DSL installed. They projected mid-July for completion. Over a month after it was ordered! Totally unacceptable.
Comcast cable modem is great. One of the big determining factors was upload speed - super fast. With DSL uploads are no faster than a standard modem. Not so with the cable modem.
The cable modem is faster, easier install and the same price. No brainer. Awesome Comcast, embarrasing Verizon!
-aB
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