Can a wireless user camp on my DSL?

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by DreadPirateRoberts

I thought the same thing, but then I did a little research. You are correct in that you have a dedicated line to the Central Office, but it is shared from there, so it depends on the bandwidth at the Central Office. The sharing just starts in a different place.

But that is a very important difference. With cable everyone in your neighborhood shares the same bandwidth pot. What they do directly effects each other. With DSL the central office typically has thousands of connections so the effect is (or should be) much less pronounced. In fact with a half decent provider you should never see the type of slowdown that's common with cable.

Not to mention the fact that cable also goes to a central office and so in addition to neighbourhood issues, you also have all the same potential central office connection issues of DSL.