Can a wireless user camp on my DSL?

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

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.

I agree, the performance will depend the bandwidth of the central office. If it's halfway decent, you shouldn't see a degradation in performance with DSL. We have cable, and it may just be where we live, but I have yet to see a slowdown, people must not be online using much cable bandwidth in our area.