Gadgets & Technology
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Internet - cable or DSL?
We're likely switching our TV from cable to DirectTV and I'm thinking about switching internet too. Staying with our current provider would be about $50/mo for about 10Mbps DL. AT&T is currently offering 3Mbps for $15/mo or 6Mbps for $20/mo (DSL without home phone line). We do basic web browsing, sometimes watch shows on Hulu but that's about it.
Does anyone have DSL, or prefer cable internet over it? I don't know what the real differences are, but the price is right!
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Re: Internet - cable or DSL?
My mother has Charter Cable Internet and it's the crappiest internet I've ever seen. It's outrageously slow and often goes out.
I've had AT&T DSL with no phone line and loved it.
Because of our internet usage, we insist on a cable connection over DSL. DSL is typically an ADSL connection, and the "A" stands for Asymmetric. The way they can achieve higher download speeds is that they use more of the bandwidth for downloading instead of uploading. In most cases, this make sense, because as a typical internet user, you send a small request to a website, and they send back a bunch of data (in the form of web page encoding, images, video, etc).
However, I keep a digital backup of most of our photos on my personal web site, so I upload a lot of data. When we had an ADSL connection, this was almost impossible, because there just wasn't enough bandwidth going that direction. So for us, we need the higher upload speeds along with the higher download speeds, so DSL doesn't make sense for us.