Mostly, and anyone correct me if I am wrong, cable modems do not
route, they bridge. The Hybrid cable modem in the Sprint 
broadband setup is a true router. It would be very hard
to carry off the telco return model and not have the
cable modem be a router of some sort. From the cable modem
to the 'head end' it is a shared as shared can be. In fact
until they more 'sectoring' (or set up new points of access
on top of South Mountain and Squaw Peak) the shared
access will become for of an issue.


> Thanks for the correction.  ;-)
> 
> Is this shared at the head end?  Is that why I don't see _any_ 
> other traffic
> even if I put the nic into promiscuous mode?  Or, is it shared just on the
> other side of that little hybrid "modem"?
> 
> I guess my question is...  what makes it shared?  It seems to be different
> than wired cable modems?
> 
> Curious,
> ...Kevin
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Michael
> > F. March
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 2:02 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: RE: DSL reccomendations? anyone using PSN?
> >
> >
> > > > Most providers don't object to your putting servers on DSL
> > > > connections - Cox
> > > > (@home/@work) & Sprint Broadband (aka speedchoice) are very
> > fussy about
> > > > running servers on their shared bandwidth.
> > >
> > > Minor point of clarification.  I don't think speedchoice is shared
> > > bandwidth.  Correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
> > SpeedChoice definitely 'shared' bandwidth.
> >
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