[gswilder]

I have had both Cable and DSL. On DSL, I got around 400K down and 100K up. (service was supposed to be 768/128) Switched to Insight Cable about a year ago. My speeds are consistently 3000+ down and 110K up. Had around 3-4 outtages a year on DSL. Cable I have only had one during the major ice storm back in Feb-03. Only lasted for about 2 hours. (A large part of Lexington was without power and cable for 2 weeks.)

So all in all, I prefer cable since it is the same price here. I too was concerned about the cable company service and reliability. However, they have made a lot of improvements over the last 10 years or so. I'm sure everything varies location to location.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I wasn't talking about up-time or service or anything like that.  I was generalizing about pure performance.   In choosing between Cable or DSL; if you want speed, get cable, if you need low ping get DSL.

There will, of course, be people who live in areas where the reverse is true but I work for a gaming company.  We host thousands of players a day (we're the primary host of America's Army) and the general rule of thumb is: players pinging under 60ms are on DSL....players over 100ms are on cable or 56k.

Whenever you see someone spike up to 500ms or more it's usually followed by a "F*cking laggy cable" or "Cable R teh sux0rs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" chat from the player.

In four years of admining, I've never once seen a DSL player say that.  Although, as you indicated, DSL players will sometimes (very rarely) lose their connection.