DSL vs Cable Internet Services in Osmond Wayne Tekamah Blair Wakefield Kennard Lyons Nebraska NE

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In terms of theoretical peak performance, cable modem runs faster than DSL. Cable technology supports approximately 30 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up whereas DSL cannot exceed 10 Mbps down and 1Mbps up. In practice, cable's speed advantage over DSL is much less than the theoretical numbers suggest. Why?

1. Cable modem services can slow down significantly if many people in your neighborhood access the Internet at the same time.

This is because coax cable is buried in the ground making a daisy-chain ring that goes from house to house. The more houses on that daisy-chain, the more traffic on that ring and thus slowing down each users speed. American Broadband has rectified this in most of our communities by implementing more nodes (end points) for our communities so fewer people are on each ring.

2. Both cable modem and DSL performance vary from one minute to the next.

Depending on the pattern of use and traffic congestion on the Internet. Websites getting lots of hits are out of any single ISPs control. In these cases, it doesn´t matter if you have DSL or Cable Internet.

3. DSL and cable Internet providers implement "speed caps"

This limits the bandwidth of their services so that the few heavy users do not affect the rest of the users. The "speed cap" means that if you are paying for 5 Mbps of service on either DSL or Cable modem.

4. Too many computers under one roof.

Some home or office networks cannot match the speed of the Internet connection, lowering your performance. If you have 4 wireless computers at your house and all are surfing at the same time, your home wireless router will be the bottle neck, not the cable or DSL modem. This especially applies to office networks where many computers are printing and sharing files through the common router which may be overwhelmed with internal requests, thus, making your Internet connection run slow.

5. In a land far, far away.

Some of our very rural customers in some of our locations cannot get much more that 1 Mbps due to the fact that they are a great distance from any CO (Central Office) or cabinet. Washington County, on the other hand, has mini-CO cabinets that bring the CO closer to them, thus allowing them almost the same speeds as those customers in the city limits of Blair.

Both DSL and cable provide very comparable high speed Internet services. Both have their unique place in providing Broadband services to customers with small differences between each. DSL is typically rural because it uses existing telephone lines and cable is generally urban because it uses coax cable. Other types of Broadband services such as wireless or satellite Internet find it very difficult to overtake any significant portion of the DSL and Cable market. This is based mostly on customer satisfaction with DSL and Cable services and the fact that hard wired connectivity is more stable than the environmentally prone over-the-air Internet services.

If you have any additional questions regarding your American Broadband Internet service or would like information about high-speed Internet, please call our technical support team at 533-5777 or 1-888-491-9115. This is a free service for American Broadband customers and is available from 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM 7 days a week. You can also send us an e-mail at techsupport@abbnebraska.com

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