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fightguy
11-28-2005, 04:25 PM
Does anyone know the actual answer? I tried looking online but it seemed that some people thought T1 was faster and some said cable
dy-no-mite3000
11-28-2005, 04:31 PM
tjuan.

also more expensive.
Pandora's Sweaty Box
11-28-2005, 04:32 PM
T1 is a dedicated line where cable is shared. Cable can be faster.
dy-no-mite3000
11-28-2005, 04:32 PM
cable is also shared by "blocks" in your area. I have noticed in 3 yrs w/ cable, my u/d speed has slowed significantly as more people switch to cable.

T1 is a dedicated line, and much faster u/d streams avail to you through your phone comp.
dy-no-mite3000
11-28-2005, 04:33 PM
T1 is a dedicated line where cable is shared. Cable can be faster.


"IF" you are the only one on the local network.
fightguy
11-28-2005, 04:33 PM
tjuan.

also more expensive.
Can anyone with a brain answer this for me?

j/k I'd rep you if I could.

It seems like most of the things I found online said that cable is slightly faster. WTF? Tomorrow my work is moving and we are going to have T1 at the new place
dy-no-mite3000
11-28-2005, 04:36 PM
High-speed Internet that makes privacy a priority
A T-1 line gives you a private, secure and direct voice and data connection to another office location or Internet Service Provider. The line consists of 24 individual digital channels, each delivering 64 Kbps per second (for a total 1.544 Mbps in bandwidth). Each 64 Kbps channel can be configured to support voice, data and video applications. Some service limitations may apply.



t1's cost roughly 250-600 a month depending on variables from what i read.
fightguy
11-28-2005, 04:41 PM
High-speed Internet that makes privacy a priority
A T-1 line gives you a private, secure and direct voice and data connection to another office location or Internet Service Provider. The line consists of 24 individual digital channels, each delivering 64 Kbps per second (for a total 1.544 Mbps in bandwidth). Each 64 Kbps channel can be configured to support voice, data and video applications. Some service limitations may apply.



t1's cost roughly 250-600 a month depending on variables from what i read.
Gracias senora. WTF is wrong with the reps?
Rauger
11-30-2005, 07:01 PM
wow lol. Im suprised you talked to someone that actually thought cable was faster.
Mad Processor
12-01-2005, 05:35 AM
wow lol. Im suprised you talked to someone that actually thought cable was faster.

Well, we don't have T1 here (we do have fiber optics, but not the T1 tech), but cable can certainly be faster than 1.5 mb. I have ordered a 2048 Kps cable line and you can get it as fast as 26 mb/s (yes) so T1 does NOT necessarily mean faster
than cable. Though I'm not sure if you have the same speeds and the same technology over there on the cable network.

It basically depends on what subscription you get. The fiber optic lines we have here can deliver us 50 mb/s, though it costs more than 10 tons of gold...
K1ngph1l
12-01-2005, 05:40 AM
definitely T1
Alf
12-01-2005, 05:58 AM
im pretty sure comcast is at 6mbps
Mad Processor
12-01-2005, 08:27 AM
definitely T1

If we're talking about the TECHNOLOGY then cable is potentially faster than T1 as T1 is only 1.544Mbit/s. I even provided an example where my local cable company offers 26Mbit/s. The T-carrier technology is potentially faster than cable though.

Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-carrier
fightguy
12-12-2005, 03:55 PM
If we're talking about the TECHNOLOGY then cable is potentially faster than T1 as T1 is only 1.544Mbit/s. I even provided an example where my local cable company offers 26Mbit/s. The T-carrier technology is potentially faster than cable though.

Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-carrier
Well, I got the T1 at work but it still seems like it goes about as fast as standard dial-up. WTF?!?! Do I need to reconfigure some settings or something?
Mad Processor
12-12-2005, 05:36 PM
Well, I got the T1 at work but it still seems like it goes about as fast as standard dial-up. WTF?!?! Do I need to reconfigure some settings or something?

No, but it isn't that much faster than a good ADSL line, though it may be full duplex, I'm not sure.

Either way, if you share it with a lot of people, you risk actually getting ISDN speed on it. Read the links on how a T1 line is physically divided up.