OP,
Unfortunately, sometimes it depends on your location. My mother lives very far from the nearest CO, and her DSL service is always in and out. For the better part of a decade their local telco has tried everything to make it better with no success. She tried to get cable, but she's too far away from their service area. Last time we talked, she was considering just getting a hotspot.
Originally Posted by
pilotalan
Yes. Cable was fast as heck during weekdays or late at night, slow in the evening when the neighbors were home.
Cable usually uses a shared pipe of bandwidth between you with your neighbors. If there's a network bottleneck anywhere, you see it when everyone is home.
I've had TWC cable internet for 15 years and I've never experienced this. Seems to be a common internet misconception that dates back to the 90s. Every time I speedtest (and I have an automated script that runs it every few hours), I get at least what I'm paying for, usually 10-20% more. There's no discernible difference during primetime.
Now I have heard that Comcast and some others throttle streaming video apps like Netflix, but that's intentional and not a limitation of the technology.