Question on Cable versus DSL

[Michael Butash]

Oh by the way, if you have a docsis 3 modem on cox, you should start 
seeing a doubling of your bandwith.  They're upgrading to the new 
infrastructure, and peoria just got upgraded last week.  My 25mb/$60mo 
plan is now 50mb and I see if pretty consistently on download with 
supernews usenet (which peers with cox).

Too bad their LA peering is saturated currently though for everything 
else...

-mb


On 02/08/2013 09:26 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
> This is a common problem with any DSL, and why telco's are now simply
> migrating to fiber as replacing with new twisted pair copper is simply
> dumb. Twisted pair is unshielded by old default, which means modulation
> is never as stable as (good) coax to modulate higher frequencies and
> speeds. In-town, VDSL requires new, shielded copper runs to achieve it,
> but you'll only find this if your region was built new within the past
> 5-10 years (if that). It's still quite variable based on a friends
> experiences just two nights ago complaining about it.
>
> I'm a bit biased having worked in cable internet industry from almost
> the onset of the tech (not currently though), but short of fiber, it's
> your best, and most stable solutions generally. I've posted some links
> in the past with info on this topic as well if you do a search of
> archives, but there's plenty out there.
>
> The only saving grace legacy telco's have with only old twisted pair
> infrastructure is marketing at this point to stretch the truth a bit of
> what "max speeds" are "up to". The rest is vapor until they replace it
> with fiber.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 02/07/2013 04:41 PM, JD Austin wrote:
>> I live in AJ and did not have a stellar experience with Qwest DSL for
>> one simple reason:
>> they aren't willing to replace old copper. My speeds were always
>> nowhere close to what I was paying for (1.5M at the time but I got less
>> than 128k)...
>>
>> JD