I love listening to people bitch about the USA. I love how they say America is so bad and how we are the cause of all the worlds problems. All the bitching is based on one thing: jealousy.
What would the world be like if the USA did not exist or was a paper tiger like the rest of the world?
Lets see: 1) We would all speak either German or Russian. 2) There would be no bitching about how bad the 'world' government is because you would be executed as a traitor 3) There would be no Jews 4) There would probably be no blacks or other ethnicities that Hitler and Stalin did not like. 5) Everyong would live in fear of the SS or KGB taking you away for 're-education'
Yeah i know that it is all shared at one point, but the better architecture of the two is to share further down the loop. That last mile is the critical section.
Once you get to the cable or phone company, you are set, as they can easily scale that pipe. I would rather be at the mercy of the warez sites feed than the wire going to the cable or phone company *AND* the warez site.
If i could only get cable, i would take it, as anything is better than dialup, but having a choice, i see no logic in using cable due to that last mile problem.
Here is a horribly written story. It claims the average cable modem user gets higher speed than a DSL user which is laughable. It makes no distinction between the different DSL packages: 640k and 1.5Mb. Cable really only has one package: 1.5Mb or on rare occasions, an unlimited bandwidth(up to 8Mb). So when they say the best average time for cable is 800Kb, that really shows you how poorly cable performs. An average of 468Kb for DSL is really not bad considering the majority of people have 640Kb. To get the 1.5 you have to be within 15,000 wire feet length of your central office.
Any speed test i have ever run on my connection gets around 1.3Mb. My neighbor has a Comcast Cable modem, and apparently more of my neighbors do too as his speed goes from around 1.2Mb to 280Kb(LOL) on speed tests. The simple fact is, you can not beat the dedicated access of DSL. Cable lines are saturated with HDTV, Digital Cable, Analog Cable and shared Internet access.
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I love listening to people bitch about the USA. I love how they say America is so bad and how we are the cause of all the worlds problems. All the bitching is based on one thing: jealousy.
What would the world be like if the USA did not exist or was a paper tiger like the rest of the world?
Lets see:
1) We would all speak either German or Russian.
2) There would be no bitching about how bad the 'world' government is because you would be executed as a traitor
3) There would be no Jews
4) There would probably be no blacks or other ethnicities that Hitler and Stalin did not like.
5) Everyong would live in fear of the SS or KGB taking you away for 're-education'
etc...
etc...
No system is complete without Civilization 3!
Yeah i know that it is all shared at one point, but the better architecture of the two is to share further down the loop. That last mile is the critical section. Once you get to the cable or phone company, you are set, as they can easily scale that pipe. I would rather be at the mercy of the warez sites feed than the wire going to the cable or phone company *AND* the warez site. If i could only get cable, i would take it, as anything is better than dialup, but having a choice, i see no logic in using cable due to that last mile problem.
Here is a horribly written story. It claims the average cable modem user gets higher speed than a DSL user which is laughable. It makes no distinction between the different DSL packages: 640k and 1.5Mb. Cable really only has one package: 1.5Mb or on rare occasions, an unlimited bandwidth(up to 8Mb). So when they say the best average time for cable is 800Kb, that really shows you how poorly cable performs. An average of 468Kb for DSL is really not bad considering the majority of people have 640Kb. To get the 1.5 you have to be within 15,000 wire feet length of your central office. Any speed test i have ever run on my connection gets around 1.3Mb. My neighbor has a Comcast Cable modem, and apparently more of my neighbors do too as his speed goes from around 1.2Mb to 280Kb(LOL) on speed tests. The simple fact is, you can not beat the dedicated access of DSL. Cable lines are saturated with HDTV, Digital Cable, Analog Cable and shared Internet access.