I have cable service here in NZ, but checking stuff out before I bought it I've seen that it was far far better than the ADSL service offered by the rival Telecom.
My cable provider (Saturn) uses Com21 cable gear, checking out their site COM21 uses DES encryption, and checking out with a friend of mine who's already a customer, all Samba broadcasts are blocked. They don't use DHCP, and have no worries about you running servers etc.
Checking out the policies and config of your highspeed provider is always the key. If it was the other way around with the services, then I would have gone with ADSL.
Both technologies are excellent, and my cable service could have gone with ADSL but they didn't (all new phone network and all) that has to say something.
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I have cable service here in NZ, but checking stuff out before I bought it I've seen that it was far far better than the ADSL service offered by the rival Telecom.
My cable provider (Saturn) uses Com21 cable gear, checking out their site COM21 uses DES encryption, and checking out with a friend of mine who's already a customer, all Samba broadcasts are blocked. They don't use DHCP, and have no worries about you running servers etc.
Checking out the policies and config of your highspeed provider is always the key. If it was the other way around with the services, then I would have gone with ADSL.
Both technologies are excellent, and my cable service could have gone with ADSL but they didn't (all new phone network and all) that has to say something.