Linux and High speed accessability

[Amanda Lee]

Answer I've always gotten is.  We don't support networking but what you do
is your business!

Amanda Lee


On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Holmes, Steve wrote:

> This obviously depends on your personal desires but I thought most cable
> companies / providers strictly disallow hosting of any kind on your local
> machine. But if it is kept quite or strictly private, they'll probably never
> know. Where on the other hand, I thought most DSL providers were more
> permissive in that way. I could be all wrong here though.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirk Wood [mailto:cpt.kirk at 1tree.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:22 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Linux and High speed accessability
>
>
> In all the discussion about the speed of networking option, has anyone
> considered the speed of the connection? If your primary thing is internet
> access, then getting 100mbit connections won't help much. DSL tops out
> about 1.5 and cable arround 2. And yes, cable is faster then DSL on a
> consistant basis. I have compared real world speeds with a number of
> friends using dsl and cable. The cable consistantly gives a slight
> edge. Neither is a clear leader. And the "security" of dsl is just pure
> horse sh__. There is no such thing as a secure internet connection.
>
> And do you really give a damn if the neighbor somehow detects that you
> went to the smut site? Give me a break. My cable modem filters out all TCP
> traffic bound for mac addresses that aren't accessing it. I think this is
> pretty standard.
>
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
>
> "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at
> a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
> 	- President George Bush
>
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