Originally Posted by
mludd
DSL is only faster downstream (although the upstream for DSL isn't exactly prohibitive in this case).
I doubt the latency differences will be major if everything works as it should. And there lies the main issue, xDSL technology is a lot more problematic than fiber. With a fiber connection things tend to work or they don't, transmission problems generally have "extreme packet loss" as their main symptom. With xDSL you might get occasional disconnects when doing large transfers, weird intermittent packet loss issues, stuff like that (a "classic" on a noisy line is that an ADSL2+ connection is established at 24 Mbps (DS) and when the user tries to transfer a lot of data over the connection sync is lost and renegotiated, sometimes in ADSL2+ mode or (if the user is "lucky") g.dmt).