[HM] Cable Modem Speed

[Jane Sprando]

Is cable faster than DSL?


> From: Duane Murphy <duanemurphy at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Macintosh Computers in the home."
> <homemac at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:11:21 -0800
> To: "A place to discuss Macintosh Computers in the home."
> <homemac at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [HM] Cable Modem Speed
> 
> --- At Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:00:01 -0800, Duane Murphy wrote:
> 
>> The rational is that most of us do web browsing and email reading. The
>> protocol for web browsing has little tiny requests (upstream) with large
>> responses (downstream) so upstream speed is more important.
> 
> Of course, I got this backward. The last part should read:
> 
> so downstream speed is more important.
>    ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>  ...Duane