From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 23 10: 7: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1D0B37B43C for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 10:06:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696E1BCFD for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 10:06:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA20946 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 10:06:51 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBNI74u28721; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 10:07:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: any difference between cable(TV) and phone line high speed internet References: <200112211956.fBLJu1d16378@ptavv.es.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 23 Dec 2001 10:07:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200112211956.fBLJu1d16378@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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