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**vosteglog** · 07-07-2008, 08:00 PM

I've always wanted to try cable cause of all the good things I hear about it and apparently its meant to sh*t all over ADSL when it comes to online gaming due to higher bandwidth and lower ping which is vital in FPS games. But the price is a little high. Its not available in my area and the quotas are pretty small[thumbdown]

Yea lol. Sorry was kinda in a rush so not thinking clearly. I have cleanup duty for housing inspection[thumbdown]

I would get pings of 12ms playing on both Telstra and Internode servers, while on T$ cable. [yes]

The reason why cable offers such high speed is that it's shared bandwidth. The more cable users you get in your area the slower it gets. However with new encapsulation methods and many frequency channels that your modems can connect to, this is not really and issue and most people see flying speeds.
The reason why distance from the exchange is no issue with cable is... it doesn't run to an exchange. Just like this Australian wide fibre to the node proposal. Cable is very similar. The fibre optics run into the neighbourhood and then the street is the last bit that is coax. The only difference with the new Australian wide proposals is that it will use copper twisted pair (telephone line) and dedicated lines to each house (just like ADSL)... not a shared network like cable.

Also to clarify on FAKE which has some misinformation...

Telstra Cable (Docsis 2.0) can hit over 30Mbit = 3.75MB/s

ADSL2+ theory max is 24Mbit... however most sync below 20Mbit. Mine used to sync at 18Mbit.

No need to tell me about Telstra plans work FAKE... I've been there and done that.

FAKE seems to have some points right and wrong all at the same time. This is what I see a lot of in Whirlpool, and it just causes lots of misinformation. Considering I work in the industry where I have a bit more hands on with this sort of stuff, I feel I know a little bit more about these things. [yes]

07-07-2008, 08:00 PM	#68
vosteglog Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 495 Senior Member	I've always wanted to try cable cause of all the good things I hear about it and apparently its meant to sh*t all over ADSL when it comes to online gaming due to higher bandwidth and lower ping which is vital in FPS games. But the price is a little high. Its not available in my area and the quotas are pretty small[thumbdown] Yea lol. Sorry was kinda in a rush so not thinking clearly. I have cleanup duty for housing inspection[thumbdown] I would get pings of 12ms playing on both Telstra and Internode servers, while on T$ cable. [yes] The reason why cable offers such high speed is that it's shared bandwidth. The more cable users you get in your area the slower it gets. However with new encapsulation methods and many frequency channels that your modems can connect to, this is not really and issue and most people see flying speeds. The reason why distance from the exchange is no issue with cable is... it doesn't run to an exchange. Just like this Australian wide fibre to the node proposal. Cable is very similar. The fibre optics run into the neighbourhood and then the street is the last bit that is coax. The only difference with the new Australian wide proposals is that it will use copper twisted pair (telephone line) and dedicated lines to each house (just like ADSL)... not a shared network like cable. Also to clarify on FAKE which has some misinformation... Telstra Cable (Docsis 2.0) can hit over 30Mbit = 3.75MB/s ADSL2+ theory max is 24Mbit... however most sync below 20Mbit. Mine used to sync at 18Mbit. No need to tell me about Telstra plans work FAKE... I've been there and done that. FAKE seems to have some points right and wrong all at the same time. This is what I see a lot of in Whirlpool, and it just causes lots of misinformation. Considering I work in the industry where I have a bit more hands on with this sort of stuff, I feel I know a little bit more about these things. [yes]
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