"The mis-information people have is that at peek hours it will slow down to less
then dial up speeds because of the shared bandwidth. This is a crock, cable
companies for the most part use Fiber optics once it reaches the street, so
there is more then enough bandwidth to go around."

I agree and would also add a misconception of DSL is that your a dedicated line and that prevents this issue. I've seen that promoted all over the place. It is true that you are a dedicated line but you can then experience slow downs because the routers are jammed with traffic. I've run into the situation more than once when managing the connections at work. We would have an office running super slow and upon calling and working up to a level 3 tech they would discover that the we were routed through a super packed router and simply rerouted us through another one that opened up the connection. There's always a limitation someplace and you just have to get experienced to look through the hype and make your own decisions.

While we had that consistant issue our offices that i could get cable access for always run smooth with the least amount of trouble. Not to mention Cable is often burstable to give you more on demand. Hope this doesn't muddy it up for you.