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Subject: RE: any difference between cable(TV) and phone line high speed internet 
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:34:05 -0500
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Is that also true for ADSL which is different that DSL?

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From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Knightstalker
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 2:25 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: any difference between cable(TV) and phone line high speed
internet

On top of that, the difference is shared media.  Cable is shared by everyone
on that particular segment.  DSL is not shared media.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To: "Fuji Zhang" <fzhang3@csd.uwo.ca>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: any difference between cable(TV) and phone line high speed
internet


> 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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