What is the next best thing, as far as speed, to cable or DSL internet access?

Answer 1

ISDN lines come through your phone lines and are somewhat highspeed. This is ususally available in areas where you can't get Cable or DSL.

Answer 2

T1, T3 and above

Edit: Satellite is a horrible service. It's "weather permitting" so if you have an overcast, goodbye what little speed you already were getting. The only people I know with satellite have it because they live somewhere that doesn't allow cable/dsl service. Or rather hasnt been set up for it. Dial up usually wouldnt work in those cases either.
Satellite equipment will be over $200 and sometimes upto $600 and the service is just not worth it.
Next to Dsl and Cable, it would be T1 and T3 lines. Those usually come from the phone box located somewhere behind your house and normally is where everyone on your block's phone lines come from.
It would usually be about $100 something a month for T1 and a bit more for T3. Those lines have speeds as fast as if you were accessing something from your computer.

Answer 3

Fiberoptic connections are going to be the next big thing, the connection will be able to provide you with television, phone, and high speed internet all from a very small connection to your home.

Verizon has already been rolling it out in parts of the country, their service called 'FIOS' is very high speed low latency, from what I've read about it, (don't personally have it) AT&T's U-Verse is a form of the fiber connection to home. Fiber will be the way to go in next couple of years as requirements for higher speed connections rise.

I've seen some say DSL is better, others cable, and alot of that depends on the provider, in my area, St. Louis, cable is by far and above faster, but the company that provides the service sucks. Charter vs. AT&T, one overcharges for the service (AT&T), and the other the faster of the two (Charter) has bad Customer service.

Answer 4

both cable and dsl can reach the same speeds depending on your internet provider.. and both can go down every now and then.. though a faster dsl line will probably require you to pay more than a cable line for the same speed

Answer 5

Satellite is slow, sometimes as slow as a dial-up modem.

T1 is the next step up but is limited to 1.5mbps unless you gang up several T1's and that's how you get to a T3.

For residential and business though the future is in fiber-optic and available in some areas. I have Verizon FIOS and at 6mpbs and utterly reliable it just rocks.

Answer 6

Here is a website that you can go to and compare DSL, satellite and cable for your area. http://www.dsldance.com

Answer 7

obviously DSL is the best for speed

Answer 8

I would say Satellite.

Answer 9

I have dsl
http://www.bell.ca/shopping/PrsShpInt_Landing.page

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