ok obviously not an expert but yea if u can get a better connection for the same price range then it looks like its definitely worth a try. but u should be careful before commiting to a long term contract tho. so keep that in mind. also try to find people who are using the 2 connections and get a comparison.

in general cable broadband is subject to variation mostly because it kinda depends on the load. (atleast thats what people tell me) so given the speeds advertised the dsl mite be better.

Sad to hear u have such bad pings on cable,because cable simply rocks for gaming.It beats the crap out of DSL connections as.far as games and ping are concerned.DSL connections go through satelite while cable goes through an optical cable in the ground.I also have cable [384/160k,yes thats 45-46 kB/s realistic download speed] and I have better ping on german servers then almost everyone,including ppl who have 100 MBit connections [Hi hard ] and also ppl who live in germany :] [35-37 in scoreboard,and 28 in lagometer].So do ppl who live arround u and have better pings then u also use the same provider? If yes,call your provider,tell them about the problem.Keep naging them and be persistent untill they do something about it.As far as "higher speed=lower ping" philosophy,it doesnt apply.At least not on such high speeds.My provider started with 64k speed,and ping was improving with speed increases up to a certain point,200k i think.Once it passed that point,ping is not improving anymore.And I hear its the same thng on DSL connecitons.

\:D/ \:D/ DSL RULES \:D/ \:D/

Montreal's Internet Providers suck ass but I'll have to say cable because I had DSL before and I had huge ping loss on poland/germany/sweden servers...

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Montreal's Internet Providers suck ass but I'll have to say cable because I had DSL before and I had huge ping loss on poland/germany/sweden servers...

that was because of the connection between ur ISP and the internet, 'cause i live like 2000 miles away from US and i get ping of 100 ms and 90 sometimes, and also people from UK get's ping of 100 and they are like 5000 miles? or more... so those connections passed for less nodes to get to the server, that means they have directly connections to those countries .

Also DSL is good for low connections ( i.e : 50 Mbps and less ) because high speeds ( 100 Mbps and more ) required new tecnology to be used like fiber optics, so u gotta use a cable connection but that''s for enterprises who needs super speeds, but for a regular internet dude XD! u will be happy with DSL...because u can take advantage of the Upstream and Downstream WAY better than cable...but that's just my opinion...peace...