I've had both cable and DSL and from my experience they aren't very much different...
they both go down periodically and speeds are equally as fast with a slight edge on cable..
but the good thing about cable is if u have a black box, you can split the wall outlet with a cable modem and your black box and u get free unlimited cable... woohoooo
atleast that's possible in sacramento, cali.... apparently here they send a cable television signal alon with the internet...so with a box u could get free cable...