Which is better, and why - cable or telephone high speed internet?

Ignoring the cost factor, which one is faster, and which one more reliable? Helpful answers from people who have tried both, please, not opinions from those who haven't.

high speed internet, only way to go baby.

Since I was asking about high speed internet on either cable or phone lines, your "best answer" didn't answer the question at all. Report It

ive tried both and i lyk cable better

Cable: Speed and reliability. I have Comcast and have never had a problem. It's faster than the telephone line for sure.

Faster is always better

Cable! Because you don't need a useless landline and I don't care what anyone says Cable is faster and more reliable.

depending on provider

cable is better because it it faster

cable, it is real high speed,phone lines just say they are.its not that fast,and ties up phone line for phone use.

I've done both and let me tell you CABLE is the way to go. Phones have a higher POSSIBLE speed but they NEVER reach it, Cable has a higher normal speed that they keep, and its always been reliable in my years of experience.

Ok i don't know witch is faster but i think cable is the best for the reason is that the phone number will not be blocked and if you work in a type of big or home business you might have to have the phone line clear.

I'm a Network Admin for a retail chain and I deal with both on a daily basis. To the average home user cable offers faster speeds than DSL. Don't get me wrong though, you can purchase DSL with speeds faster than a T1 (1.54Mbps). The problem is with most ISPs, at least as of now, this is classed as a business type connection and the cost gets outrageous. However, one of the upsides of DSL is that it is what is called "baseband" service, meaning that it is dedicated to you, or there is no one else sharing your connection. With cable, called "broadband", this is not the case. Your service is shared with everyone on the same line as you. So if someone down the road is running an FTP server or sharing files through the internet there is a very strong possibility that your connection will be slowed down.

Also, DSL does not block your phone line. You are able to speak on the phone at the same time while browsing online. Not that cable effects your phone either, but I just wanted to point that out so that there was no confusion.

One more thing. I forgot to point out that DSL suffers from distance limitation a lot more than cable. The farther you are from the local CO the worse you DSL will perform.

Cable..much faster

Funny i have never noticed a diffrence at all.. cept when the phone conection had an incomming call years ago would kick me off the net...

I prefer cable, seems to be faster, more reliable, and I'm not tieing up my phone line.

They both work. They both are big fat dumb pipes to the Internet.

The only difference is in the quality of service of the provider -- price, uptime, customer service, etc.

My cable is rated at 8MB, the highest DSL I can get is 1.5MB.
I have seen less trouble with cable than with DSL.
If you're rich, get a T-3. LOL

i have had both and currently i have comcast high speed (the faster avl. package) and cable is the way to go cause going through the phone you can only push so much information through (a phone line) at any one time but with cable you have a dedicated line.......now if cost isn't a factor and speed is try to find if its possible to get a t1 line installed its hella expensive but you will be able to dlaod movies in about 10-20 Min's it takes me about 2 hours or so

It depends what kind of DSL you can get.
Requirements for cable connections are
much less than for DSL and it currently
maxes out at about twice the transfer rate
from DSL. Although in most cases you won't
have these speeds anyway. If you can get
a DSL line that's fast enough for you get that.
The only DSL problems you can actually get
are speed aka line quality based. If that's not
the problem it will run like a charm at the speed
you bought. With cable there *can* be a shitload
of after-you-buy problems. Specially those who
raise if the provider maxed out it's bandwidth.

Edit:
@romp:

cable is no dedicated line. It's a shared media.
DSL however is a dedicated line.