You can't really tell from what people say which will be better for you, necessarily because location and service providers matter. I gave up on cable modem when the service sucked and I experienced outages. I have had one or two outages at my current location with DSL in 4 years - neither more than about 5 hours. Unless you're sitting around downloading warez, movies, etc., 6 MB is more than enough - it's what I have. I don't have any problems playing online games because my latency is low enough. If you have a huge file you want to d/l, then just leave your computer running. In my area, the reliability of DSL outweighs any speed advantage cable may provide.
If I choose to go to DSL, AT&T is pretty much the only service provider in my area. I know you can get better deals if you have home telephone service with them but what about if you just have wireless service?
Also, I've played WoW, Warhammer Online, etc, and experienced no lag or deficiencies that were a result of my connection. Hell, I just downloaded a ton of stuff from TechNet (several gigs of files like Office 07, Windows Vista, SQL Server, etc) and it only took part of the day with my 6 Mbit connection.
How do you check your latency? I got a 10mb connection but I experince alot of lag sometimes when playing on xbox live
did you threatened to cancel your directv before or after your 18 month contract is up? In other words, how long have you had your directv already when you decided to "cancel your service"?
Sounds like I'm going to be switching. Hopefully my friend will find their DSL equipment so I do not have to purchase it. *EDIT I noticed when I was going through with my order AT&T has some bundles you can get with DirecTV. I already have DirecTV so is there any chance I can get some kind of bundle deal?
I don't know if ATT will be better for you. I just wanted to clarify that one is not necessarily better than the other. Cable is generally more likely to have outages, which is unacceptable for me. If you're paying roughly the same price for the same speeds, I would definitely go with the one that is more reliable and better support. Also I want to point out that faster is not always better. I rarely max out my speeds and i have a 3 meg pipe. Having a 10 meg line will not speed up anything unless you are actually using all 10 megs. ATT just started bundling DirecTV yesterday. I've heard that you have to be a new subscriber and I've heard otherwise. Im inclined to believe you will be able to do some sort of bundling considering you are going to be a new ATT subscriber.
Because they don't offer anything faster? lol. I haven't worked with DSL technology in several years, but if they usually would have to upgrade their CO or DSLAM to provide the faster service. Or maybe even add one nearby if there isn't one. The only way they'll do that is if they perceive a demand for the higher speed. The fact is, most average humans don't need more than 1.5-3 Mbit download speeds (if even that) to do what they do on the 'Net. I had been perfectly fine with a 3 Mbit d/l account for the longest time until I had to download big-ass databases from work and all kinds of huge files off of TechNet and MSDN.
