(OT) Cable vs DSL issues

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006, Collins Richey wrote:
>On 12/23/06, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
>>Here is data point for people in the discussion as to the relative merits
>>of cable vs DSL broadband connections.  After a major wind storm here,
>>many people are without cable while the phones and DSL are working fine
>>(and my TiVO on DirecTV satellite is also working well :-).
>>
>>I don't know why we had no problems with our phone lines, including
>>our T1, when falling trees took down lines throughout the area, but I'm
>>not complaining.
>>
>
>Sounds like a local situation. Out here, all the cable facilities are
>below ground, and the only problems are due to backhoes. And, for
>those of us without access to the expensive luxury of diesel power
>generators, when you're out of power, you're out of cable, dsl, etc.

It's certainly a local problem where the cables are above ground as
they are here in the Puget Sound area.  On the other hand, the telcos
probably have a better record of keeping their systems up and running
as we have *NEVER* had a phone outage in the 24 years we've been here
(and power outages are a regular occurrence such that I rarely have to
run my generator just to charge its starting battery :-).

You don't need expensive diesel power generators.  I have a Honda
EU3000is gas generator that kept our computers up for the week we were
without power.  It's extremely quiet, consumes about 7 gallons of gas
a day keeping all our systems running, and has an MSRP of $1,995.00.

Bill
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