Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:20:43 -0400 From: Ted Sikora <tsikora@home.com> To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PPPoE Message-ID: <3984F08B.B5574BE4@home.com> References: <200007310105.e6V15CT21809@dna.tsolab.org> <3984E9BC.A27E0C8E@home.com>
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Ted Sikora wrote: > > Dan Ts'o wrote: > > > > > Just FYI, Bell Atlantic (I guess they're now called Verizon) is deploying > > > the same junk. I mean, PPPoE is *so* wasteful, with THIRTY extra bytes > > > of overhead per frame (10 bytes of LLC/SNAP header, 14 bytes of Ethernet > > > header, plus 6 bytes of PPPoE header), compared to direct PPP over ATM. > > > So our northern friends are not alone in this situation... > > > > My own experience with PPPoE and HellAtlantic Infospeed is > > absolutely horrid. It is no coincidence that BA is ranked at the > > absolute bottom in the national ratings on www.dslreports.com. Stay > > away if at all possible -- you truly don't get what you don't pay for... > > We are switching away from BA as fast as we can. > > > > They have SNET/SBC in my area. According to them it uses DHCP > not PPPoe.(Yet their faq says PPPoe?) I ordered it for the 14th > out of curiosity. See how it stands up to cable. Anyone have experience > with SNET DSL? I ordered it with NTPLEX.net as my ISP. You can chose > your own ISP. > I just checked dslreports.com not very encouraging. Not very many happy people. I guess I'll find out for myself. 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. -- Ted Sikora Jtl Development Group tsikora@powerusersbbs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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