That alone beats the headaches associated with trying to obtain DSL service. You do not even need to subscribe to cable television programming to receive cable Internet access. When you order cable Internet service, an installer comes to your home, installs a filter to keep your regular cable television signal working correctly, and connects your existing television cable to a cable modem, which is then connected to your computer. The modem has an RJ-45 Ethernet port, which is then connected via cable to an Ethernet card installed in your computer. After the software is installed on your system, and the cable modem is turned on, the installation is finished.
Connection speeds with the cable Internet service are phenomenal.
While your connection is limited to 128Kbps upstream, the downstream speed tops out at somewhere around 6Mbps. It's blindingly fast. Hub-networks share the total bandwidth among all clients connected to the hub. Customers may therefore experience a degradation in the total bandwidth from time to time. I haven't seen much, if any, degradation in my service, but the potential does exist.