[aclug-L] Re: DSL vs Cable

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 11:45 AM
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> Subject: [aclug-L] Re: DSL vs Cable
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> Do you like thin crust, or thick? Is it tomaetah, or tomahtoe? Catch a trend
> here? The ONLY hitch that I have seen that would sway your decision either
> way is that some providers of DSL use pppoe (point-to-point protocol over
> ethernet), which can kinda gum up the works unless you get the correct code
> (and I have to apologize, I don't remember where the stuff is, but I'm sure
> that somebody on this list is/has using/used it, and got it to work, I
> haven't, cause I already had cable, and DSL wasn't offered in my area until
> fairly recently, and I have a TREMENDOUS thirst for in-bound bandwidth.

I've been running DSL/PPPoE since Feburary of this year with no problems.  The
best PPPoE client is from www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/. I've been told that the
2.4 kernel will support PPPoE natively, but until that happens the
roaringpenguin client has proved the be the most reliable with the lowest
overhead.

I think your choice will hinge on two questions: 1) Is DSL available in your
neighborhood? 2)Do you wish to run your own Web/Email/Ftp servers? If 1)& 2) =
True, then DSL is what you need. Otherwise, a cable modem would probably work
fine for you.

--dwh

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Air Capital Linux User's Group  (ACLUG)
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