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German here, there's always been a debate that cable was usually fine for surfing and downloads but often had problems with low latency for games. Also DSL is u
by wink 6y ago
German here, there's always been a debate that cable was usually fine for surfing and downloads but often had problems with low latency for games. Also DSL is usually "either it works or it doesn't" and not "ugh, 10% of down/upstream available at night when everyone is watching Netflix. (DSL goes to 50/100 here, usually)
Also the biggest cable providers were historically bad at customer service unless you took the business plan for twice the price. If cable is even available at all (never was available where I lived, in a big city).
My takeaway simply is that it's not about the technology, but the ISP handling it.
- derefr 6y ago> Also DSL is usually "either it works or it doesn't" and not "ugh, 10% of down/upstream available at night when everyone is watching Netflix. Here in Canada, "cable internet" is (and has been for years) a fiber run to the neighbourhood and/or apartment-building head-end switch, with coax runs up from there to individual dwellings. There really isn't any contention on the bandwidth of the shared coax medium any more. It's like an office that has one Ethernet hub per four-cubicle workgroup, with the hubs all connected to an Ethernet switch. Collision avoidance / channel narrowing, despite being theoretically possible at the hub level, doesn't really come up with so few transmitters connected to each hub.
- wink 6y agoInteresting. While interested in networking per se, I've never really dug into the "last mile" or how ISPs connect households, except from basic troubleshooting.