Well i don't know if the setup is the same as here in the states...but the closer you are the better bandwidth that you will have, depending on what you max speed your ISP says to give you. The good thing about DSL is that you neighbors do not affect your bandwidth like cable. The thing about cable is that it seems to be more reliable then DSL, and that neighobs hogging up the bandwidth really does not seem to be a problem.

Another thing that would be a "plus" for DSL would be that it tends to be cheaper then cable, but possible may come with a contract. May want to look into that.

Its hard to say unless you give us some kind of number the company says you should expect to get. Do they tell you what upload/download speeds come with an ADSL 2+ connection? Most providers avertise in megs or Mbits so for example my provider where I am advertises up to 12 Meg down which is pretty decent.

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Originally posted by Magnus Its hard to say unless you give us some kind of number the company says you should expect to get. Do they tell you what upload/download speeds come with an ADSL 2+ connection? Most providers avertise in megs or Mbits so for example my provider where I am advertises up to 12 Meg down which is pretty decent.

K. They say it's a 24Mbps download speed, and 1024Kbps upload speed. Does that sound right? It's just that it seems retardedly fast compared to cable! Admittedly, Australian cable speeds are (apparently) among the slowest in the developed world (w00t ), but I always thought cable was supposed to be superior to any kind of DSL?

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depends on the type of wiring technology they use for cable, location and number of users using the same service you are.

from my experience in the past, i had cable internet line, thinking i was getting high speed internet service. the first week passed, and my d/u rates were below the suggested numbers(can't really say off the bat). i call the company, and they tell me they will get a service guy to come check the problem. another week passed, and it's still slow. i give them another call, and they give me the same excuse.

i got curious, and went to the public cable box where all the houses are connected to before going to the ground. i open the box, and i find out that they were using a cheesy generic switch to connect the cable wires together. it couldn't handle the MHz being fed from the houses to the ground. so at the end, i cancelled my subscription and went with dsl.

however, my friends have cable service, and they get faster d/u speeds than i do.

since you say you live close to the adsl service provider, that gives you an advantage.

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theoric speeds of cable are in the range of 40-50 mb.

in my area, I have a 8mb cable connection and they always up the speed to have the upper hand on the dsl companies.

everytime the dsl companies upgrade, the cable company upgrade the speed to be higher .

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Originally posted by Sushipunk K. They say it's a 24Mbps download speed, and 1024Kbps upload speed. Does that sound right? It's just that it seems retardedly fast compared to cable! Admittedly, Australian cable speeds are (apparently) among the slowest in the developed world (w00t ), but I always thought cable was supposed to be superior to any kind of DSL?

Yea that seems about right, but know that your download speed is dependant on wherever the information is travelling from

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Originally posted by Sushipunk K. They say it's a 24Mbps download speed, and 1024Kbps upload speed. Does that sound right? It's just that it seems retardedly fast compared to cable! Admittedly, Australian cable speeds are (apparently) among the slowest in the developed world (w00t ), but I always thought cable was supposed to be superior to any kind of DSL?

cable can achieve insane speeds but very few providers make full use of the optimum capacities achievable resulting in the cable high speed internet service losing market share.

The speeds you are giving are theoritical maximum. My advertised speed is 20 Meg .... I obviously get nowhere near that and I know it's dependent on a milliom reasons why I can't get that while browsing but the speeds are super fast so I'm happy. Faster than I've ever had.
Some retarded people I know are trying to figure out with the isp why they aren't reaching 20 megabit speeds and claiming they are doing false advertising ... idiotic people

I get tripleplay service btw ... dsl + unlimited phone + tv package

Thanks for all the info guys

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24 Meg down is quite an impressive speed. Thats around 3 MBs/per second. Using ReGet, a download accelerator, I get nearly that even with my cable company advertising only 12 Meg down. Using DSLreports.com however, there were people using my same provider getting 33 Meg down, around 4.12 MBs/sec, based on the speed reports submitted.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk K. They say it's a 24Mbps download speed, and 1024Kbps upload speed. Does that sound right? It's just that it seems retardedly fast compared to cable! Admittedly, Australian cable speeds are (apparently) among the slowest in the developed world (w00t ), but I always thought cable was supposed to be superior to any kind of DSL?

Cable in Australia never really had much of a chance, very big country, small population with large distances between the larger populations and too expensive too roll out another length of wire between them and the smaller population centres. I was one of the first 100 or so telstra cable broadband subscribers in Australia (thank god work paid for it at the time! so expensive) and it was horrible, dumped it for optus cable then that started too stink and been with various ADSL subscribers ever since
So we'll see cable phased out eventually and replaced with ADSL and wireless services which are cheaper.
Best bet is too see whats around and see if you can dredge out hard facts from the provider if downloading the internet is your thing.