DSL versus Cable ISP's

[Treesh]

And, of course, with DSL, although your pipe is smaller, that pipe is ALL yours.  With cable, your download speeds can actually drop below DSL download speeds if your neighborhood gets particularly busy (and TV-watching counts toward the total available bandwidth).

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Depends upon what company is providing the service. Ours used to have the shared pipeline, but then when the techies in town got angry and vocal about it, that practice stopped. Now what we pay for is what we get, regardless of what other people (including us watching tv) are doing.

ShadowHM> If you do decide to use DSL do NOT go with Sprint. They had/have the flakiest connection I have ever had to put up with. I'd rather run on dialup than go back to Sprint DSL. Far too expensive (they tax you like you wouldn't believe, at least here in Missouri they do) and far too unreliable.