yeah, i gotta stongly agree here, both cable and dsl in my experience are equally reliable. My DSL has never been down, cable was indeed out once. Satellite TV never went down though.

Some other points to note here, are download and upload speeds. Cable wins with higher upload speeds, DSL is often highly limited in upload speeds unless you are paying for a premium or business plan. If you are going to run a server, or send lots of huge files, fotos, attachements frequently, then go cable.

Another point about cable is, distribution. DSL is one to one, Cable is a distribution. Historically, if you were on a street with a lot of other cable internet users, or for example in manhatten with a number of other users in your appartment, all those others users would help to reduce your overall bandwidth. Now, does one really NEED 2.0Mb or more for most internet, no. But, there were indeed times on weekends and at night when I could notice the slow down and when checked could verify that it was much slower than normal.

Final point about geographic support. From my experience in Ecuador and Chile, telecoms there might have put better equipment in place more recently than have the cable companies. Satellite TV has been such a compelling service in some parts of SA that the cable companies have not made all the latest improvements yet.

Your telco might be better able to offer the service and customer service in the long run that the cableco. Just my quess