Sympatico's just a bad company.
XD
Seriously, though, cable is often faster than DSL, BUT, it all depends on where you live.
If everyone and their dog uses cable in your neighbourhood, you can bet your sorry butt that the cable's going to be slow as frack while DSL will stay the same speed.
DSL speed is, more or less, based on two things:
1) what service you buy
2) your distance to the nearest hub
If you live right next to one of your ISP's hubs, DSL is going to be so fast and consistent in said speed that it isn't even funny.
Also, even though your download is 7x faster, your upload is goign to limit you so badly it's not even funny (it'll still be quite a bit faster, just not as much as it should be).
People are shocked when I show them how much of an effect upload has on their internet speed (if you're using 3/4 of your upload, you basically cannot surf the internet... it's kinda ridiculous).
Also, while it's not advertised with my ISP (MTS, a DSL provider), I
can hit download speeds approaching 1MB/s (8M, or 8Mb/s) (note: only on speed tests, haha; realistically, it's usually about half that). Upload's only 40kB/s (320m, or 320kb/s), though, which is beyond pitiful.
o_O
