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Originally Posted by ianathuth
With speeeds available on xDSL you have to remember that line distance from the exchange affects the level of service that you can get and that not all exchanges supply all the service levels advertised. Line quality also affects your ability to obtain xDSL so you can live within a line distance that should support your requirements but line quality can mean you are unable to get that service.
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Totally agree, and AFAIK there are no such restrictions for NTL's cable services. This is one of the main benefactors with Cable compared to ADSL. It can run much greater distances (as th'engineer's sig says I believe) Cable can beat ADSL when correctly managed and configured.
One point though, in the total amount of the peopl who have ADSL, only a small percentage suffer from upstream rate adaption (i.e.: less than 256kbps) and the percentage is around the 0.1% mark possibly less. Its definitely no hgiher than 1/1000.