You also need to be aware of who your provider is...
With Cable, most of them only have one or two people in an entire division with any knowledge of how data works. And those two folks are seriously over worked.. but that depends on your cable provider...in rural areas, you're more likely to run into this than in more urban areas...I know that Adelphia has this problem quite a bit...if you need to make some custom configurations and you're running multiple machines, then cable is not the way to go. If you're running servers and need a VPN configuration, and cable doesn't offer a "business class" solution, then cable is not the way to go...if you need to rely on the ISP for technical support...then cable is not the way to go...
DSL is usually offered by one of the local Bells...and in today's day and age, data is all that the do...plus they usually have whole departments geared for business use of their pipeline...
It all depends on what's important to you.
Ed
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After 6 years of dial-up, my town is finally getting DSL and Cable services. My question is which is better? I only know people who have DSL. They say it is great compared to dial-up but how is it to cable? Thanks in advance.

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