Re: central and remote offices comm green screen -- MIDRANGE-L

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Jim Franz wrote:

Have a small customer with 2 or 3 remote offices.
Home site has a 6 pc's w/Client Access. Remotes may have 10 or so remote users, some lasers, some barcode read & print. Some small file upload/download.
All green screen.
DSL provider claims cable is bad.
Cable provider claims dsl is bad.
Either would be "business class", not home. One site across the country. T1 too much. Want a router to router tunnel from central to remote sites. Is one (cable vs dsl) really better than other

One or two big differences between DSL and cable. With DSL you have your own connection to the CO, while with cable you are in effect on a big network with all your neighbors. I've heard horror stories about people sniffing other people's packets, but I don't know the details. The bigger issue is congestion; at peak loads you're sharing the cable bandwidth with everybody else - everybody who is streaming or torrenting or HD on demanding. Load will affect DSL, but not nearly so much.

From a purely personal standpoint, I've had DSL for five years and I love it, except that the download speed is way slower than even modestly priced cable nowadays.

Joe

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