I live in Wichita, Kansas. The cable company here is Cox. What I think the biggest advantage dsl has is this: just the standard dsl is the 384/216 package. (I think; the upload used to be a 128 minimum, but it's been raised somewhere around 200). Cox offers absolutely NO GUARANTEED speed. Simply because you are put into a network with 50 other cable internet subscribers, and you share your bandwidth with them. If you are the only one online, you'll be super fast. If all or most of you are online at once, you will be crawling the web instead of surfing it. With dsl, my bandwidth is MINE, I don't share it with the neighbors. I have the basic, and my speed runs 1300/220 most times, and I never drop below 1200 kbps. My nephew with cable will run 2.5-3 Mbps between 3am and 4am, but there are periods where his speed is as slow as 200 to 300 kbps during peak usage times such as weekends, holidays, etc. Most of the time, he runs about 1.5 to 2 Mbps. But he pays about $15 or $20 more a month than I do. No thanks, Cox. I'll keep what I've got.