Are you a DSL defector too? Cable to own broadband market?

Whether it is just curiosity (we had DSL at the last place, let’s try cable broadband) or America is bandwidth hungry, cable ISPs are gobbling up customers much faster than DSL, according to Q2 records announced by Pew. In fact, Comcast says 2/3rds of its new customers are coming from DSL.

So what is it? Bigger bundling discounts from cable operators? Are the DSL defectors finding faster speeds and more than happy to pay extra to get it? Alley Insider suggests it is all about speed. But is the layperson that hip to know how fast downloads should be?