I don't really know how good DSL is in other countries, but here in Belgium they definately suck. I have a cable connection and never had problems whit it. Some people say DSL is faster because they increase the bandwith when more users go online, but up to me this is just one big lie. I mean cable users in belgium get a maximum downloadspeed of 4M/s, ok we never reach the 4Mbps but it isn't exeptional for us to get downloadspeeds of 700kbps downloading from sites. DSL users get 3.3 Mbps max, but they don't even get downloadspeeds of 500 in most cases.A friend of mine has DSL and last time I went to him his downloadspeed from a good website was even lower than a smallband connection.