so everyone's super excited right about internet service providers that are
offering fiber internet directly to the home but let's face it most of us don't
live in an area where we can get 100%
fiber and waiting around for Google to show up and save the day with an army of
construction workers might take a really long time so the majority of us are
still using either cable or DSL to get
online but is one better than the other
and how exactly can internet data travel
over a cable TV wire or a phone line
that only carried 56k dialup not so long
ago well although people laughed at Ted
Stevens for calling the internet a series of tubes it's actually pretty
darn helpful to picture the phone or a
cable line running to your house as a pipe the phone conversation or ad
Sandler movie that you're enjoying only
takes up part of that pipe's space the
space in the pipe yes we're continuing this analogy that would otherwise be
empty can be filled with creamy delicious internet data packets which
are kept separate from phone calls or cable TV by simply using a different
frequency band similar to how different
frequencies on your FM radio correspond to entirely different St
so in the case of DSL which runs over a regular phone line phone calls only take
up a very tiny part of the available
bandwidth which explains why DSL is so
much faster than a dialup connection since old school 56k internet could only
use the frequencies that were dedicated to phone traffic to further increase
speeds for the average user isps typically assign much more of the
available bandwidth to Downstream traffic rather than Upstream as most
people download far more things than they do upload which is why ADSL is a
common term that you'll see in advertising with the a standing for
asymmetric as your upload and download speeds will be usually very different of
course if you need lots of Upstream bandwidth such as if you're a video
production company you can actually get symmetric DSL or
sdsl okay lonus I get it they both work
by sending stuff down in empty part of a
pipe or copper wire but how then are these two different well one of the
biggest distinctions is one that you'll hear quite a bit from companies that are
trying to sell you DSL and that is that your connection to the ISP is your own
bandwidth on an incoming cable connection compared to DSL is often
shared by many other people in your neighborhood so if tons of people are
streaming in 4k on Netflix or downloading games off steam at once your
speed will often suffer so that's great DSL is a dedicated connection just for
you but It suffers from its own
bottleneck the farther you are physically located from your internet
service provider or one of their stations the slower your DSL connection
will be since DSL isn't comp compatible
with the boosting equipment that phone companies use to make sure that you have
a clear conversation from 3,000 M away
this is part of the reason that cable connections are often faster though DSL
is often a cheaper Choice especially since contrary to a popular
misconception you don't necessarily need
phone service to get DSL as many isps
offer DSL over something called a dry Loop even if you don't pay to make calls
on a landline so shop around a bit and
keep those things in mind in your quest to find the most reliable ISP so your
connection won't suddenly drop out in the middle of a twitch stream a crucial
field goal kick or Counter Strike and
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