Question

You are helping a customer decide between the DSL and cable broadband solutions for home and small business use. What do you say is the biggest disadvantage of using cable for Internet access?

A. Cable is more prone to service outages.

B. Since cable also provides television and phone service, Internet access speeds are slow.

C. Fitting a special coaxial cable connection to computers is expensive.

D. You have to share the Internet bandwidth with the other cable users in your area.

Answer 1

D. Cable uses a one-to-many rather than a one-to-one connection, such as DSL; therefore, you have to share the cable bandwidth with other cable customers in your area. The more customers using cable, the slower your Internet speeds. This may not be particularly noticeable most of the time because cable provides very fast Internet speeds.