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Try to remember even with some of the Bad there can be a lot of Good..
You can Take a bad thing make it good...

But I think it can all be Good if its worked at.

If you have a New Years Resolution.. Try to make one that's realistic and try to stick to it.

If you want to upgrade Going to Windows 7 is a Wonderful thing. or even trying something new like linux.
Ifyou want to upgrade your network. and router to connect you to theinternet and have a older computer laying around Give PFSense a try itmight be fun to learn something new.

For Myself. this year a couple things we're working on.
Want to get a Amature Radio TECH licenses.
Workon upgrading the computer wiring in our 4x4 and Tune the PCM to getbetter fuel milage and stay within the emissions curve So we're usingless Fuel and running even cleaner...
Upgrade a few systems here that probably should have been done a little over a year ago.
Try to build our own Server rack with cooling..

We may even look to see what we can do to lower our emission foot print of our home some more.

Lookto see what you might be able to do... AND if you don't have Resourcesfinancially maybe help out at Church or youth groups.. They can alwaysuse help..

In any Event have a Great New Year.....

New Look POSTED by (dannjr) @ 7/13/09 - 11:01AM CDT

As of today you may have noticed a New Look for broadbandnuts.
Your being redirected here because we can.. OK not a real good reason but we've moved the Discussion Forum to DSLnuts while we clean up the server.
We also require that one of our Fine understanding Admins approve new accounts till we get everything cleaned up and re-arranged.

Most information that you could need can be searched out in the Forum.
I know that waiting to be approved by a Admin can sometimes take more time then your willing to wait.. We appoligize but really have no choice at this time but to get things cleaned up and running better..

Thank you for all your support

Discussion Forum POSTED by (dannjr) @ 7/09/09 - 10:15AM CDT

The Forum will be down till this weekend sometime!

Were busy working on upgrades and did not want to loose any of the information...
You can get info on Cablenut settings from the software page or on speedguide.net till then.

Thanks for your interest and concern.

Cable VS DSL reliability? POSTED by (dannjr) @ 3/02/09 - 11:48AM CST

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 - 5:13PM 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

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