Which is better broadband or DSL internet connnection?

Answer 1

DSL is Broadband. If you are talking about Cable or DSL then it really depends on who you are talking to. I use to swear DSL was the best because on cable I was told that your connection get slower the more people in your area use it, which is true, but then after having to switch to Cable when I moved I found even in the slowest times my internet connectio was just as fast, if not faster then my old DSL connection.

People neglected to tell me that your DSL speed is determined by how far away from the local slam your home is. The farther away you live the slower your connection when using DSL. So you could be paying for a 4Mb/s line but only getting 1.5Mb/s.

All I can say is try and find people in your area that use both and give them a test drive.....

Answer 2

That's like asking "Which is better, a car or a Chevrolet?" DSL *is* broadband.

There is a marked improvement when you switch from narrowband (dialup) to broadband, no matter how you use the internet.

Once you get a 200mbps or faster connection, though, you have many factors to consider. Why 200mbps? Because that's about as fast as you can fetch a web page from one server to another on the internet backbone.

Latency is as important as speed - which is why satellite broadband sucks.

Most cable internet have poor latency, crappy DNS, questionable reliability.

I currently use Verizon DSL myself, and I'm not very happy with Verizon, but the alternatives - Comcast, a couple of satellite internet providers, a local wireless broadband, and a couple of cellular broadband providers - aren't enticing, either.

There's very good DSL available in the northern part of my county. It seems a bit excessive, selling a house and moving, just to get a little better internet. Maybe when the mortgage industry settles down....

Answer 3

DSL is a type of broadband service! Others include cable modem, fiber, wireless, satellite and broadband over power line. Each of these has its own advantages (not the least of which is availability). Cable is generally regarded as being faster than DSL, but it has the disadvantage of having to compete with other users for bandwidth. It is also notable that broadband speeds in the United States are significantly lower than in many other parts of the world (in Japan, the average speed i 61 Megabits per second).

Answer 4

Fiber is the best, but very expensive as you go faster. Cable Internet provides speeds similar to fiber, but generally a little bit less expensive in terms of regular price. DSL is the cheapest internet to be considered broadband, but is also the slowest.

Just look at the monthly cost versus speed. That's the best way to determine what's best for your needs.

Answer 5

DSL is a type of broadband service. Cable can carry higher speeds when downloading but when uploading, its speed is slow (Plans include download speed which can go high as 100mbps).DSL provides very constant speed-both downloading and uploading(Plans include download speed of up to 10-25mbps).

Answer 6

We've always had broad band but now we have the fiber which is awesome:) DSL is ok is you live in a small town where not alot of people are using it.

Answer 7

DSL is broadband.

You mean is cable faster then DSL. Yes.

No direct experience, but FIOS papers apparently beat both.

Answer 8

it really depends, broadband is faster, if there are few subscribers in a particular area. like dsl connection, when number of subscribers increase, it will clog up the connection, esp if many of them download large amounts of data at a particular time

Answer 9

broad band. its faster