Re: [Nolug] Cable or DSL?

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:15:50 -0600
  "Brett D. Estrade" <estrabd@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:19:20 -0600, "Joey Kelly" <joey@joeykelly.net>
> said:
>> > 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
>
> I vote for cable even though I can't stand sending money to Cox each
> month. I have never played with PPoE, but I am sure it is easy enough
> for any geek to figure out.
>
> Brett
> http://www.brettsbsd.net/~estrabd
>
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I had to switch to PPPoE when I opted to save a few $ by going to the new
slower (384) DSL. It was just a matter of going into my router's setup and
clicking PPPoE.
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