How does Hay Communications High Speed Internet Service compare with cable modems?
Hay Communications DSL service provides an always available high speed Internet access over a single dedicated telephone line. Cable modems offer high speed Internet access over a shared cable television line. While cable modems may have greater theoretical downstream (from the Internet to the home) bandwidth capabilities, that bandwidth s shared among all users in a neighbourhood, and will therefore vary, perhaps dramatically, as more users in a neighbourhood get online at the same time. Upstream traffic (from the customer premise to the Internet) over cable modems will in many cases be slower than DS, either because the particular cable modem is inherently slower, or because too many people in a neighbourhood are trying to send or receive data at the same time – causing congestion in the local cable network.
