We have a national footprint, so we cant speak to a single area, but overall, we've seen lots of hype over cable access, but no real delivery of high speed service once it gets past the "trial phase".
  When a cable company rolls out service around one of our POPs, we lose customers. 3 Months later, a good portion of them come back because that "screaming fast cable modem" is downloading at less than 28K during peak usage periods, and to boot, the cable company knows almost nothing about supporting computer users.
  The only folks that almost always leave us for good are users in areas where they can sneak a server past the cable company without being detected.
  That's manna from Heaven for low budget webmasters.

Drew Linsalata
President/CEO
MacConnect - Connecting the Mac OS to the World