The Slowsky’s
Comcast has a couple of commercials starring a turtle couple named the Slowsky’s. In this commercial they complain that Comcast high speed internet was too fast for them - so they switched back to DSL.
I have used both cable and DSL and prefer my DSL(currently with Qwest).
- DSL doesn’t block my incoming and outgoing ports
- I don’t share the line with my neighbors
- Timmy next door isn’t sniffing my packets
- I don’t get bogged down when Timmy’s computer is turned into an internet zombie
- My speed stays consistent throughout the day, not falling off when all the kiddies get home and have to email/Instant Message their friends
- With DSL I can (if I wanted to) get a dedicated connection to my office
- Speed is not guaranteed with cable internet
As for the speed guarantee, my wife’s boss recently upgraded to dial-up. When I write upgraded to dial-up I mean that she tried cable internet and the slower than dial-up speed and lack of customer support caused her to go back to the old modem.
So if DSL is slow and steady (and we know who wins the race in that fable) then cable is somewhere between hanging yourself and a saint bernard trying to get through the kitty door.
Know what else? This commercial is a slander on all Polish and Slavic people who have ever been the brunt of “slow Polack” jokes. Comcast better get ready for a set of lawsuits. I wonder if they launched a commercial with a family named “the Toweltops” if they wouldn’t get backlash like immediately.
Comment by C Wisniewski — 3/26/2006 @ 7:00 pm
What a load of bull…I have Comcast cable with their VOIP and let me tell you it is FAST as lightning! (At all times of the day, night, weekends, day and night!). I work at home and I’m more than pleased with the speed. My dad had DSL through SBC/Yahoo and it was WORSE than dialup on the initial connection so he switched to cable (in his case, Cox Cable), and he too, is tickled pink with the true “instant on” speed and use.
Comment by Marv — 3/29/2006 @ 7:52 am
Well Marv,
Not everyone has the same experience with either cable or with DSL. However, with DSL I can have all my ports open, run services off my personal machine if I choose to (you have to pay for “business service” with cable if you want that) have a static IP, direct connections for business - or other I suppose - purposes if I choose, and I still don’t have my next door neighbors able to sniff packets or flood the bandwidth with traffic from internet bots.
Perhaps you are one of the lucky people whose neighbors never download anything big and never get infected with viruses, trojans or worms. Maybe you live in a 55+ community and there aren’t any kids on your link. I don’t know the answer to that. I do know that I want to be able to use my link without sharing it (unless I choose to) and I don’t want traffic flowing past a computer set to promiscuous mode trying to capture anything that just might flow past it.
As for “instant on” what is that suppose to mean? That DSL doesn’t have that? Puhlease. I can’t write to the quality of SBC/Yahoo, but from what you write it’s not always on. There will always be a connection delay if you have to initiate your connection when you want to be on the internet.
PS- The delay in your post and this one is due to me being sick for three days, not DSL speed.
Comment by site admin — 3/31/2006 @ 5:48 am