DSL not working because of CAT5 cable?

[Hyudra]

I have a little network setup and I had the CAT5 cable supplied to me by my DSL company hooked into my router. Now everything is fine, up till I find out that my DSL isn't working for like days at a time. Now I think to my self, hey it could be the wiring, so i'll let it go. But then I try to plug directly in to my DSL modem and it works! I then tried another CAT5 cable in the WAN port of my router and it works fine.

Is this common of companies to hand out lousy wiring?

 

[Adul]

Maybe the guy that made it messed it up. It is possible to get a bad cable, thought I do not think it is common

 

[gnognugs]

The wire is prolly fine
the schmo who put the plugs on is the culprit

 

[Hyudra]

So, a cable can work for a little bit, then just blank out?

 

[esung]

if you put in the defective cable, does your connection work? try it and see.. but it's fairly uncommon to have a defective cable, but I happened to me once (yes, I'm the stupid one that made the defective cable, the RJ-45 connector isn't crimped down tight 100%.....)

 

[Verygreedy]

very uncommon to ave bad cable. I hate DSL.. its always down. CABLE ALL THE WAY

 

[AMB]

Guess I made the right choice...

cable comes on Monday

aMb

 

[Verygreedy]

yes..but I had to pay 300$ for my USR cable modem last spring.. but Im DLing at 300k/sec.. seriously.