Cable Modem
Your local television cable company may provide cable modem Internet service, which sends high-speed data signals through the same distribution system it uses to carry high-quality TV signals.
Cable modem service has none of the distance limitations of DSL. One early criticism of cable service was that data speeds could drop during high-use times, such as the early evening, because everyone in a given neighborhood shares a single network “pipe.” That may have been true when cable service was first introduced, but cable vendors seem to have built up their networks considerably, and this seems to happen less frequently now. Surveys show that cable subscribers usually get several times the download speed of DSL subscribers.
Cable modems ...
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