From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 1 10:40:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ct.home.com [24.2.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C3737C051 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:40:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tsikora@powerusersbbs.com) Received: from powerusersbbs.com ([24.2.168.186]) by mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000801174019.NSJG9101.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@powerusersbbs.com> for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:40:19 -0700 Message-ID: <39870B37.7E6AABE@powerusersbbs.com> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 13:39:03 -0400 From: Ted Sikora Organization: Jtl Development Group X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) X-Accept-Language: en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: PPPoE References: <200007310105.e6V15CT21809@dna.tsolab.org> <3984E9BC.A27E0C8E@home.com> <3984F08B.B5574BE4@home.com> <39857FF3.32663673@mail.zbzoom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris BeHanna wrote: > Ted Sikora wrote: > > > Recently my cable service > > reduced the bandwidth. Now upstreams average 16k and downstream 400k. > > There has to be something better. Several users on my node (all > > BSD/Linux users) have been enjoying our own little private network with > > speeds up to 900k both ways.(600k average) Now it's terrible. They now > > limited the internal network to 33k between users. Compared to before > > it's like putting us on dialups. > > When you signed on, didn't you agree to pay per month for a given > service level? If I understand you correctly, @home has now changed the terms > of the agreement. > > We need competition for cable service in a big, big way. :-( Big time. For instance I had a line problem. -.39 line strength. Anything below -.32 should not work. But mine(Lan City modem) kept working. They refused to send a linetech because it was still working. > > > I don't have the option for DSL where I live (yet), and my cable "ISP" (I > have to put that in quotes, because they couldn't find their bungholes with > both hands and a roadmap) guarantees 1500K down and 500K up for what I'm > paying, BUT they block all the ports below 1024. :-( That really sucks. That I couldn't live with. I guess I better count my blessings. > > > I can hack around that, given a friendly site outside their firewall who's > willing to divert packets for me, but it's still a PITA. > > Regards, > Chris BeHanna > behanna@zbzoom.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Ted Sikora Jtl Development Group tsikora@powerusersbbs.com Linux the choice of a GNU generation............ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message