If DSL is the White Cat, and Cable internet is the deer..... Ok a bit of a stretch here, but from the picture here and the statement above, what do you think is happening? Is DSL trying without hope to catch cable internet, in a race it cannot hope to win? Or is DSL hunting, chasing, and going for it's prey...cable. Right now the technology that is in place is really what is limiting both of these competitors when it comes to speed. Old copper lines, whether phone or cable is one of the biggest hurdles. But when you look at recent CNET reports on bandwidth averages taken from their online bandwidth test, you can see that the gap is about what you see in this photo. For DSL from Telus an average download speed of 6.1 Meg and Shaw Cable at 7.3 Meg. (Interestingly both companies are in Canada) Believe it or not, speeds this high are actually overkill for most people who would find that the 768 Kilobyte download speed of the low end DSL providers would be more than they needed at 14 times faster than dialup. So does the cat catch the deer? or the deer outrun the cat? I will bet we won't have to wait long to see.