[Tfug] why not cable?

Chad Woolley thewoolleyman at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 09:27:10 MST 2006


Thanks for mentioning this Peter, I hadn't thought of this (or how
important it was).  I'm a work-at-home employee, so I live by remote
control software.  I now know I can never go to cable and expect the
same performance as DSL.

-- Chad

On 9/12/06, Peter Collins <pcollinsca47 at gmail.com> wrote:
> My 2 cents on dsl vs cable for home use.
>
> The bigger pain is the lower upload speeds which impacts remote access via VNC
> or Remote Desktop - these are much better when connecting to a DSL site. Comcast
> (out of town) has even slower upload speeds than Cox. Transferring
> large files like
> my folk's latest photos from their cable site is like reverting to dialup.




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