I have a cable modem, with Comcast cable tv. I think i'm going to start a class action lawsuit against them. They cap upload speeds at 128K to 'prevent' people from hosting servers, even though they sold me a service with upload speeds of 256K. At any rate, cable companys are typically less advanced and less buisnesslike than phone companys and as such typically do not implement the proper infrastrucutre to suppor their cabme modem networks. During peak times my cable modem is little better than dial up. I think that dsl technology is better in theory, but it all depends on how a company implements it.
Cable is generally faster download and more widly available.
DSL is generally faster upload and more reliable. The people who work for qwest are incompetent so don't expect support but the technology is very reliable. Reliability does not matter until it does not work then it matters more than anything. My ping times with cable are great, but when this POS starts dropping packets it's worthless. All Rights Reserved.