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It's not a secret that I'm a Big supporter of DSL when it comes to reliability and support. While DSL has its quirks support has beaten Cable overallSome of you might argue this and its your right. Such as some of the more reliable cable companies like COX.But overall DSL is making Giant changes campared to cable.

I'll add some links to the fact at the end of this.Most Cable companies depending on where you live DO NOT follow FCC rules for reliability and up time. That can be Important for a business subscriber. DSL is generally supported by the Phone companies.

Not real sure about where you live but the phone always works here. I realize allot of people have gone to using Cell phones only as the means to communicate by voice. But DSL offers there service over whats called Dry pair or Dry line.
It's a line that has no dial tone and will work just fine without having to subscribe to a Phone service.

In many cases Cable boasts of a higher upload and in that area they can. Till your Node (the area you live in) gets overloaded with users and gamers online. At that point your upload can slow to a crawl. Your download even if its suppose to be 50Mb can drop to less then 1.0Mb.
DSL is a constant, with its download and upload it generally wont drop to a crawl like cable can and services to the lines are generally done in the we hours of the morning for a given area when they need to upgrade it and there upgrading everywhere.

Cable esp. Comcast area's like the Comcast area around the Chicago area can go out at any time to include the Comcast Phone service. We've seen it and if you have a business don't expect them to jump and fix your line right away.. In some cases it can be a week before you see a Technician get out for the repair. I have seen Same day service but not often.esp. for consumers. They Try to be a communications company but the bottom line they treat there service as a entertainment business. That's just to bad when you have an Emergancy phone call to make to the Fire Dept or the police and 911... it wont work in all places. Don't get me wrong I'v seen problems with all providers and they all have good and bad points.The bottom line is that DSL will have a up time of 99.9% where Cable is about 95% and the support for DSL is 99.8% where cable support is about 89% overall..
DSL and Telco companies keep records and notes on what has to be done or what has been done on a location or bill. Cable basically keeps no records other then when your bill is due and the amount due..
I could point out that DSL from Quest and Earthlink can be a real challenge. Earthling with there one Email address and Quest with there Interleave problems but then I could also point out how Earthlink had aligned themselfs with Enron not as a partner but more so as using the old enron lease lines.. That was a shame and at least Earthlink didn't leave there customers high and dry they did what they had to do to keep there customers up and running. Enron messed up everyone. Quest has done things in area's that other DSL companies hadnt even tried like Rural area's way before the competition. They have there problems but it still works. So if you need reliability take a real close look at DSL and shop around. At least you can with DSl in 98% of other area's you don't have a choice on who your cable provider is.
Cost wise. DSL is about 15 to 20% less if you look around. In our area. We have, several to chose from the Average price on DSL is about $49 a month. As low as $15 a month for a 768kbps download x 256kbps uploadA 1.5Mb download by 256 upload runs between $25 and $38 in some cases your upload could be 768.

If your a big Gamer upload reliability is a big thing.PING most DSL is anywhere from 10ms to 200ms
Cable is higher. In a range from 40ms to 500msNot sure about you but did you ever think about a slower player that ends up winning cause his/her connection was faster then you.

Not gonna tell you what to buy. Just trying to give out the info. Remember this when your trying to surf on Cable in prime time.
Here are some links to articles on Cable vs DSL reliability.I pulled these links randomly with a simple search on Google.Keywords = DSL2 vs Cable reliabilityother keywords = DSL2 vs Cable reliablityYes there is a big differance between DSL and DSL2. About.comhttp://compnetworking.about.com/od/dslvscablemodem/a/dslcablecompare.htmDiscussion about wanting to change to DSL2 from Optus Cablehttp://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/705845.htmlFrom a Hardware forumhttp://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/57936/Coolnotions an independent reviewhttp://www.coolnotions.com/Articles/Article_08.htm

We would like to hear your opinion in the Discussion forum

NEW NEWS POSTED by (dannjr) @ 2/09/09 - 11:13PM CST

It's been awhile since we posted anything NEW on the front page of DSLnuts.com.

If you wonder whats happened to the Cablenut.com website. So are allot of people. Part of the issue is that the program is only being supported at dslnuts.com and broadbandnuts.com at this time. The Website was supported by a College that has changed some of its policy and moving cablenut.com was more then we wanted at this time.

The Program will continue to work with Windows XP and older versions of Windows back to Windows 98.

In other news the Servers that Broadbandnuts and dslnuts are on are running smooth at the moment. We have no reason to move them and so far the support from the users and the Admins has been great. We plan to be around for a long time.

What we're working on.

Allot of intrest has been noted that more people would like to learn how to setup a webserver but we only here from a small portion people on this. We do run and maintain our WEB servers and would like to hear from you if we should run a guide on how to setup Apache Webserver with Perl, PHP, MySQL and a reletivly strong email server. Most of whats mentioned can all be ran on a single server and until you hit a large amount of users can run it on a fairly easy machine using Windows XP pro or Windows 2000 without having to go crazy with hardware. Or the fastests connection in the world. Let us hear in the Forum on broadbandnuts.com if this would be worth writing a guild.

Thanks

dannjr

broadbandnuts.com and forum POSTED by (dannjr) @ 1/05/06 - 5:08PM CST

UDATE; Broadbandnuts is now on a NEW server.. We hope to be there for a long time.. We also upgraded to a new platform so please be pateint as we upgrade the forum.. All the information is in tack. We just need to tweak it a touch

Thanks Again

Please be patient.. WE hit a snag in bandwidth use.. Well over the limit.. We would hope to have the forum and broadbandnuts back up within a few hours

We had been informed it could be as long as 24 hours...

Thanks

dannjr

A Thank you for the Support POSTED by (dannjr) @ 4/21/05 - 7:43PM CDT

The combination of DSLnuts, Broadbandnuts And Cablenut. We have hit all time high in the past few months. With the addition of Testmynet as one of the affiliates and quite a few other sites Like Speedguide.net. We now hit well over 100.000 hits a day. with Quite a few return surfers as well..

IT's always a good thing to thank the people that help this FREE site get to where it's at.

To all who support us Thank you, from all of the Cablenut team. PLUS a Giant Thank you to "The Crew" Moderators who help everyone everyday without complaining.

WE hope to enjoy many added, helpful years to come.

Thanks again

Dannjr and the team

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Content Theft ! by wholesale POSTED by (dannjr) @ 1/21/05 - 4:24AM CST

Today we found out a NEW host took over for DSLnuts While some of you may have seen the underconstruction sign it really isn't..

First thing to be done.. IF you have a email account on dslnuts please download all your email IF you cannot get your email please goto ~~Linkremoved~~ loggin with your account read what you need and delete all the rest to protect your ident..

IF you cant loggin to wmail please contact dannjr in the discussion forum through a P.M we can still reset the wmail at this time.

IF your wondering whats being done with DSLnuts its to soon to let you all know but we do have dated backups of our copywrited material along with a full backup of the site if need be we will point the domain to a NEW host that wont attemp to steal the content.

CIhost is the currant host for all the other domains and we will feal much safer with them overall.

WE learned a big lesson today Never deal with the middle man when you can deal with the real deal..

Thanks

Dannjr

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UPDATE:

DSLnuts and all its content is back under control..

AGAIN if you need the email fixed We'll give directions in a Private Message from the broadbandnuts.com discussion forum link at the top.

Thanks again for all the support

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