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Originally Posted by stealer11
Is there any clear benefit of DSL over a cable modem?
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There are plenty of benefits...
Cable is based on a downstream only setup. This means you will never be able to get truly high-speed upstream rates. DSL is based on the phone line which is designed to go in both directions.
When cable companies laid out the cables, they used a standard that used a single cable for each sector, or neigheborhood. This means that once more people start signing up, you lose bandwidth. With DSL, however, you are the only one with your phoneline, because phonelines are on individual lines, so no matter how many people sign up in the future, you will always have your bandwidth. This also leads to security. With cable, everyone else in your sector can view your data, because it is sent to everyone, it just isn't accepted by the others - only yours. But as you can see, by changing certain settings on their computer, they can easily access and view everything that you pass along and receive over the internet. They can also change it. Right now, security isn't a big issue, but, it can be exploited in the future, which I have no doubt will happen.
There are many other benefits, but I'll stop there for now, but if you would like more, please tell me.