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You should have the telco run a line test and see how far away from the CO you are. Farther away can lead to more problems. I'm capped at 40K/s each way because I'm beyond the maximum distance they usually support. Anything higher and my connection drops. The farther you are below 18000 feet the better. Also as Carbonated says the phone lines in the area can influence things. Older lines = crappier.
The big gripes with cable are cost and sharing. Sometimes they oversubscribe and at peak times things can get slow. Maybe that's better or not a problem in your area. Cable is faster however.
Guess it comes down to what you're using the connection for. Is reliability more important than speed? Even though my DSL is very slow it's pretty dependable.
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