Cable Forum - View Single Post - Noticable differences between Cable and phoneline internet?

**Chris** · 27-05-2008, 16:39

Cable internet is generally more likely to live up to the speed promises, but if you really are close to your telephone exchange, and the line from you to it is of good quality, then that probably won't be a big consideration for you as ADSL can be very fast as well. Cable is capable of being much faster even than fast ADSL but TBH unless you're a really heavy downloader there's only so much speed you can use.

However if you are a heavy downloader, or if you like to download a new Linux distro every week via BitTorrent, then you should check carefully to see what fair use policy or usage controls your new ISP may impose. Uber-fast broadband isn't much use if it gets throttled after a few minutes' use during 'peak' hours. Mind you, don't VM do that anyway ... ?

27-05-2008, 16:39	#3
Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,330	Re: Noticable differences between Cable and phoneline internet? Cable internet is generally more likely to live up to the speed promises, but if you really are close to your telephone exchange, and the line from you to it is of good quality, then that probably won't be a big consideration for you as ADSL can be very fast as well. Cable is capable of being much faster even than fast ADSL but TBH unless you're a really heavy downloader there's only so much speed you can use. However if you are a heavy downloader, or if you like to download a new Linux distro every week via BitTorrent, then you should check carefully to see what fair use policy or usage controls your new ISP may impose. Uber-fast broadband isn't much use if it gets throttled after a few minutes' use during 'peak' hours. Mind you, don't VM do that anyway ... ?