Tom's Guide | Tom's Hardware | Tom's Games
 |
 |
 |
(1) I currently have DSL and was wondering if information travels faster through a cable line or a phone line? Cuz I'm wondering If I should switch over to cable.
(2) Also, when you run a T1 or T3 into your house what does that go through? The cable line? Or does it run through the phone line? These question are killing me!
You're Gonna Carry That Weight.
1. the data travels through all wires at the speed of light. Other factors influence the actual speed of the data transfer.
2. T1 and T3 uses special phone lines.
0 
0
Without knowing who your DSL provider is the speed question is hard to answer. Cable systems seem to be faster than DSL at this time. Some ISP's limit the bandwidth on cable, but typically the speed is around 1.5MB. DSL is between 320 and 768 for downloads. It depends on the package that the ISP sells you. In the long term cable can ultimately be slower since it depends on how many subscribers share the line. The more users the less bandwidth for your link.
Richard
0
Walker, you're off in left field. Data does not travel through copper lines at the speed of light....you only get that through fibre optic.
Incarnadine: DSL and cable are about the same for speed unless you pay your provider for higher bandwidth.
As to T1 or T3 lines, I doubt very much you can afford either and a T3 is much more expensive than a T1. However, there is a ton of info available on the web concerning them so if you want to know more, go searching, you'll find all you need.
0
Curt R, I'm afraid that you have been misinformaed. All electrical signals travel at the speed of light (300KM/S). The reason fibre optics can carry more information (not cary it faster) is because fibre optics have a much wider bandwidth than wire.They have the equivalent of hundreds or thousands of wires in each fibre optic cable.
0
t1 for home use (i wish it was afordable)
why change from dsl?
if your having difficulty with dsl then it may be your pc or providerScsi - What you call your week-old underwear
0
Light travles at 282782.5 miles per second. Electrons dont. they travel as quick as you can push then up to close to the speed of light but never as fast or faster. the way a piece of data gets to your PC from an internet server will use light in fibreoptics and elecrons in copper at various stages in it's journey. how quick it can do it can be found by pinging. a response from google takes 45ms round trip. cable is a bit quicker than DSL. a T1 ect is what's called a 'leased line' and is a dedicated synchronous connection (upload and download are the same as opposed to my asynchronous DSL where I have 1Mbit download and 256Kbit upload). If you can afford a T1 or T3 for you home you have too much money...
0
Also when data travels through coper wire it is not the electrons physicaly moving from one end of the wire to the other, The electrons stay in one place. they get pushed and pulled a little at on end and this causes the electrons next them to get pushed and pulled and they effect the ones next to them and so on down the line. what causes the electrons to push and pull each other is the electromagnetic field which is made up of light. that may be the cause of the above argument. the info travles in a wave of light and electrons down the line. The info can't travel as fast a light as some time is wasted in the elecrons absorbing and reemitting the light. I bear no responsability for the acuracy of the above info.
0
T1 costs $600/month, T3 is $1,500. at that price, who cares what the wiring is? The vendor will provide it.
All electrons do move at the speed of light, but they are too small for me to see.
A cable connection will give you a faster connection than DSL. Call the local cable company & the DSL provider & ask for their speeds. They know. Some people say cable slows down the more people are connected,but that has never been proven. I have RoadRunner cable & it never slows down.
0
so if i use a third nic and plug in another cable modem, will i get more speed? ive been pondering that for awhile. i think it will be twice as fast considering there will be 2 different ip addresses requesting the information. and if i plug two wires into my router from this one computer will it get more speed? this whole thing has been bugging me for at least a week.
Dont be like Johnny. Wear clothes.
0
If you have two different IP address requesting information, they will both be requesting and getting the same information. So both links will be downloading the same data at about the same time. I don't see any advantage in that, you only need one copy. (What makes you think the server at the other end has any ability to split a large request to two different IP address? It works on the single session basis of one IP address (its) to one IP address (yours).)
Now if you had a load sharing router with two Cable links, each using a different address, then two different computers could connect to the router and one would be using one Cable connection and its IP address, while the other used the other Cable/IP connection. No advantage here, as you could just connect each computer to a different Cable connection and not require the expensive load sharing router.
0  |
 |
 |
This post is quite old and has been locked from receiving new replies. Please create a new posting instead.
| Ads by Google |
