Saturday, December 24, 2011

Qwest Fiber Optic DSL 20 Mbps or Cox 25 Mbps cable?

I have Cox 25 Mbps cable but when I do a speed test it is around 15-17 Mbps and I like to do netflix plus gaming. Should I switch to the Qwest Fiber Optic DSL 20 Mbps or stay where I am? What do you think?|||Firstly, there's no game in the world that would require that much bandwidth - unless you were the host.





NetFlix has a capped out Bandwidth rate of 2.1MB/s, meaning, you'll never get higher than that.





The only advantage to switching to DSL is that it's independent. You share no connections, and you will have a 100% constant bandwidth delivery, no spiking up, or down.





So if you're just looking for seemless interruption and you can afford SDSL from qwest, then, by all means, to each their own.





But the truth is that you are already downloading / browsing much faster than servers can provide for you - you're capped, world-wide mostly.





If you can find a site where you can download @ more than 6.5 MB/s, let me know.





The truth is that Fiber Optics Cable = 1OC. Verizon FiOS offers 45 MB/s @ 1OC.





After that comes OC48, which is 2.1 GB/s. Then, the fastest in the world is OC192 operating at 9.6 GB/s.





Like I said though, finding a use for this much bandwidth (other than hosting) is nearly impossible.

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