Several weeks ago, I wrote a column describing what it's like to have high-speed Internet access at home. I'm also finding that it remains a technology with some bugs to work out.
Net junkies have to decide which one they want.
In some cases, they may have no choice, because availability is spotty for both technologies. When it doesn't, it's hellish. I found Southwestern Bell's version of ADSL, dubbed FasTrak, generally more reliable than Time Warner Communications' cable modem service, RoadRunner. That was largely due to a mysterious problem that has since been solved. I was getting a rhythmic lagging, or latency, with RoadRunner.