Cable Internet vs. DSL Internet
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2017-05-06
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837 words · ~4 min read
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so everyone's super excited right about internet service providers that are
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offering fiber internet directly to the home but let's face it most of us don't
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live in an area where we can get 100%
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fiber and waiting around for Google to show up and save the day with an army of
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construction workers might take a really long time so the majority of us are
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still using either cable or DSL to get
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online but is one better than the other
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and how exactly can internet data travel
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over a cable TV wire or a phone line
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that only carried 56k dialup not so long
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ago well although people laughed at Ted
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Stevens for calling the internet a series of tubes it's actually pretty
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darn helpful to picture the phone or a
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cable line running to your house as a pipe the phone conversation or ad
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Sandler movie that you're enjoying only
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takes up part of that pipe's space the
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space in the pipe yes we're continuing this analogy that would otherwise be
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empty can be filled with creamy delicious internet data packets which
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are kept separate from phone calls or cable TV by simply using a different
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frequency band similar to how different
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frequencies on your FM radio correspond to entirely different St
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so in the case of DSL which runs over a regular phone line phone calls only take
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up a very tiny part of the available
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bandwidth which explains why DSL is so
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much faster than a dialup connection since old school 56k internet could only
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use the frequencies that were dedicated to phone traffic to further increase
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speeds for the average user isps typically assign much more of the
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available bandwidth to Downstream traffic rather than Upstream as most
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people download far more things than they do upload which is why ADSL is a
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common term that you'll see in advertising with the a standing for
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asymmetric as your upload and download speeds will be usually very different of
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course if you need lots of Upstream bandwidth such as if you're a video
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production company you can actually get symmetric DSL or
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sdsl okay lonus I get it they both work
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by sending stuff down in empty part of a
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pipe or copper wire but how then are these two different well one of the
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biggest distinctions is one that you'll hear quite a bit from companies that are
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trying to sell you DSL and that is that your connection to the ISP is your own
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bandwidth on an incoming cable connection compared to DSL is often
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shared by many other people in your neighborhood so if tons of people are
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streaming in 4k on Netflix or downloading games off steam at once your
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speed will often suffer so that's great DSL is a dedicated connection just for
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you but It suffers from its own
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bottleneck the farther you are physically located from your internet
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service provider or one of their stations the slower your DSL connection
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will be since DSL isn't comp compatible
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with the boosting equipment that phone companies use to make sure that you have
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a clear conversation from 3,000 M away
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this is part of the reason that cable connections are often faster though DSL
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is often a cheaper Choice especially since contrary to a popular
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misconception you don't necessarily need
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phone service to get DSL as many isps
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offer DSL over something called a dry Loop even if you don't pay to make calls
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on a landline so shop around a bit and
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keep those things in mind in your quest to find the most reliable ISP so your
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connection won't suddenly drop out in the middle of a twitch stream a crucial
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