Date: 23 Dec 2001 10:07:04 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: any difference between cable(TV) and phone line high speed internet Message-ID: <plr8plu7xz.8pl@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200112211956.fBLJu1d16378@ptavv.es.net> References: <200112211956.fBLJu1d16378@ptavv.es.net>
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> > Well, the interconnect to your desk is not shared, but congestion can > occur anyplace other than that and it's all shared from that point. With DSL, modem to local phone exchange is not shared, but I suppose that what happens beyond that nobody can say as it is too varied. (?) I understood local Quest to use ATM to my ISP, but it shouldn't matter to me because Quest guarantees the transfer speed (to 256/128 ?), but I think they've got it set up to guarantee (or at least almost always provide) 640/128. Quest and the ISP decide on protocols I need to tell my modem to use to talk with the ISP. I was told it is PPPoATM. But I communicate via plain TCP/IP and no PPP-anything; the modem is a router. Some ISPs configure the modem as a bridge so it looks to your system like one of your ISP's NICs extended to your site. From what I've seen, Quest is near-100% reliable as long as you don't need to deal with so-called customer service for service changes, etc., and low hassle, while Cable is plagued with game-playing like frequent downtime, not allowing servers, sharing subnets, etc. The extra speed would be nice, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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