[Adder]

I once had Covad DSL at 80Mbz a second, but the packet loss was horrible for anything but downloading. Cable is where it's at, you would rather have dialup. Incendentally, it won't affect your skill as a demoman.

I have cable and I had massive issues with packet loss for about a 2 month period, it resolved itself though, not sure what the deal was.

[sirus]

try a tracert in cmd and see if there is a hop from your node to the server itself that has significant drop off...packet loss can vary at different hops.

I hated my Qwest dsl when i was stationed at Cannon due to the interleaving on the line popping my ping up by 25-30ms but that shit kept my line clean from packet loss at all times.