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To: Fuji Zhang <fzhang3@csd.uwo.ca>
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Subject: Re: any difference between cable(TV) and phone line high speed internet 
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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:55:25 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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The differences are really between ISPs more than between DSL and
cable, but it seems most common for cable modems to be simple Ethernet
connections to the cable ISPs router while most DSL providers seem to
use PPPoE connections which do require some added configuration.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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