Yahoo! SBC DSL, iam getting it.. well? Options

[Blueiyzboy]

I found out today Iam getitng YAHOO DSL. (sbc) Give me the pros and cons about it? What do you think....

[mechwarrior1989]

IMHO, DSL sucks. Of course it is a lot better than Dial-up or ISDN, but compared to cable, there is no comparison.

DSL prices are lower than cable, but if you have SBC for your phoneline (since you need SBC for phone in order to get SBC for DSL) you can bargain with the cable company to get you better rates after your special promotion is over.

I have cable and Comcast recently doubled their bandwidth to 3Mps (megabits) so I now hit 400KB/s, note that's Kilobytes, not bits (8 bits to a byte). My aunt has DSL, speed I got while downloading 50KB/s.

Depending on how much you're paying for your DSL though, SBC's basic DSL (most likely what you're getting) has max bandwidth of 758(768? somewhere around there)Kps, compare that to 3Mbs (3,000Kps) there's a huge gap.

Course this is where DSL users will bring up the "But when there are more users on Cable will slow down" excuse. In my experiance, not an issue. Even if your speed does go down, you won't notice it for surfing the web, and when downloading files your speed won't drop down to DSL speeds.