[Nolug] Cable or DSL?

> I was wondering Joey, what do most people prefer when running Linux?
> Cable or DSL? I have my own preferences and went with business cable
> recently. Mainly only because of the blocked ports on the residential
> service. What are your preferences? And I was wanting to hear some
> experiences when setting up a system with DSL especially PPPoE.....
>
> Thanks,
> Scott

I guess it depends on what you're doing. However, when all is said and done,
there's really no practical difference between the two. You get a megabit or
so down, and a fraction of that upstream. Linux and windows work fine with
both.

Linux and probably BSD work fine with PPPoE or PPPoA, but there are a few
adjustments you have to make, such as monkeying with your MTU. Fortunately,
there are plug-and-play firewall distros available that handle that for you
automatically (IPcop and SmoothWall come to mind here).

I used to have DirecTV DSL (formerly Telocity), and now use Cox. Both worked
with few problems.

Ok, I've had my say. Others will flame me, of that I have no doubt ;-)

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous."
 --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL
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