Hi.

<my2cents>
I find cable access at my house to be superb.
I get about 2 MegaBit off the internet and about 400 KiloBit to the internet just about any time of the day.
My experience with DSL is lag lag lag... the old click and wait... then go... fast.
Although most cable setups are not as fast as mine and or DSL,
I never encountered a lag on any cable connection and never found cable speed to be inadequete.
</my2cents>
If DSL lags noticably, there is a problem that does not correlate with DSL directly. Actually, most cable modems are technically DSL modems, only with a higher bandwidth (because TV cable can transmit higher frequencies than the phone lines typically used by DSL). Still, cable modems usually have a delay of about 30-80ms between two hops, while normal DSL usually has about 80-120ms delay (in both cases with many exceptions). At least for the cable modems and DSL modems and lines I've seen so far.
But a noticable lag would be in the 200-300ms area. Except in egoshooter games maybe. But certainly not when talking about downloads.
Still, being a DSL user, I would _love_ to switch to cable, even if it was only for the bandwidth. Unfortunately though, cable isn't available at my home currently.

cu,
sven