A Cable/DSL gateway is a network gateway. It is used to establish a connection between DSL and Cable TV to a computer network by physical means, such as through LAN or a wireless network.
Broadband
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There are a few options, you can still get cable even without cable tv, DSL, or old fashion dial up. I recommend going with DSL because it seems to be the cheapest of the high speed internet services and still has comprable speeds to cable.
One main difference is that you need to have cable television in order to have a cable modem, but DSL runs through a standard telephone line and jack. Another main difference that is helpful in selection which service to use is that DSL requires you to live within a certain distance of a phone tower to get signal, while cable does not. Also, with DSL, you get the same speed no matter what, but with cable, your speed is affected by how many other people are using tat cable service at the same time.
A DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) is a telephone line that carries digital data from end to end, and can be leased from the telephone company for individual use. Telephone technology. Broadband refers to a networking technology that carries more than one type of signal such as DSL and telephone.
Yes, you can have DSL and a Cable modem installed at the same residience. The DSL would use a phone line to connect to the web and the Cable modem would use a coaxial cable, like the kind that plugs into your TV.
DSL and cable modem. One shares internet with telephone line, the other shares it with television cable.
This is all a personal preference. It depends if you would watch the cable tv more than you already use the DSL internet. Just ask yourself which you would get more use out of? If you keep the internet then you can watch TV on it and stream it from websites, whereas if you got rid of the internet you cannot access that through the cable TV.
An existing telephone network provides high-speed internet connections through cable television network. Cable internet is integrated into the cable television infrastructure analogously to DSL.
DSL and/or Cable
Cable wins in speed but DSL wins in customer satisfaction based on the fact that even though they may be slower; DSL is more reliable. So it's up to you to pick speed over reliability. Both are popular in their own right and both are secure. However sometimes your tv providers either have one or the other but not both so you might not have choice in which you use. Unfortunately, the answer is that neither DSL or Cable is better all the time under all conditions. The data transfer rates you can get from either DSL or Cable will depend entirely on whatever local providers are in your area.