Actually Cox has 4 different speeds. There are somewhat significant differences between them. They are economy,value.preferred.and premiere. I use to have premiere and downgraded to preferred, I didn’t think I would notice the difference in speed but I did. Of course like anything once you get used to it, it seems fine. The majority of people have the preferred like I do because that used to be the only speed available when cox launched their high speed internet. There is a lot to consider, how fast your computer is, how much do you use the internet, how much do you upload (premiere has an upload speed of 1M) I believe the ping times are all the same, but I could be wrong. By the way I don’t think DSL can match the 2 top speeds Cox offers, and they are going to do another speed boost in July.