OT: Try cable modem. It's faster and more reliabl (archive)

Well heres the full story:
Cable is faster for early adopters, when there's only you and the 2 other geeks in town, it rockets along at full speed (usually >3Mb/s up 500Kb/s down or more).. but as time passes and the cable company gets the word out, performance will begin to drop dramatically.. Cable companies are able to oversubscribe regions as much as they care to (Monopoly) and paying for improved bandwidth is rarely an option.

With cable you will suffer the 3:30 syndrome.. i.e. when all the schoolkids get home at 3:30, the network slows to a crawl and pings can head up past 300 for extended periods of time.

With SDSL (my prefered choice) a business grade service, a lower bandwidth but lower ping can actually seem faster.

The bane of any service over the net is dropped packets.. my commercial grade DSL has 20ms pings to DSLREPORTS testers and 0% packet loss at 4:00pm ET.. primarily because there are no kids using the ISP i chose.. its a business grade ISP..
the top speed of my DSL is only 784/784, but I can run the same speed up and down, have static IP addresses and run as many servers as I see fit. (Cant do that with cable)

ISDN is by backup service, and offers something around 100ms pings, but can get really expensive and only has dynamic IPs.

As an Avid gamer with Cable, SDSL AND ISDN all in the same house, I can tell you that DSL is more predictable and flexible.. get a bad carrier, you dump them.. dont like the cost.. find a cheaper one....

Ahem.. sorry.. pet subject, I'm a network engineer.. this (unfortunately) is my life :)

Brian
Fern+tan+black 330cic Nav/Xen/SP/PP

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