DSL question from a newbie

[Jonathan Furrer]

Hmmm, I use and love DSL, of course my company picks up the tab so I don't
see the costs :-) In the end I think DSL will win out the battle between
it and cable. The question becomes do you want shared bandwidth or is it
important to you that your pipe is your pipe? At the same time, if all
thats available in your area currently is IDSL, but cable is also avail,
go with cable, IDSL is one of the stupidest (in my very humble opinion
:P) connecvtivity inventions ever. Also, Blake made the point, but cable
is better for the user who isn't running a server and just wants some
speed to go play on the net with, where DSL is for the user who might be
running some servers, and feels obsessed with the stability of their
bandwidth and link :-) Oh and as far as cable and linux, yes its capable,
in fact I believe theres an entire cable and Linux howto. Both of these
technologies (if using an external modem on DSL) connect to your computer
via ethernet. From there the requirements may be either that you enter the
IP info supplied, or that you run dhcp to grab that info. Linux is capable
of either.

my two cents, don't attack me for it :-)


_____________________
Jonathan Furrer
jonny@jofu.com
http://www.jofu.com/

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Barnett, Blake wrote:

> It's kind of a trade-off, I think that DSL is definately the more capable
> technology.  But Cable is cheap, and you just can't beat a 1.3mb/sec
> download (on a good day).  For a casual user, go with Cable, for
> power-users, get a fast DSL connection.  These are the conclusions that a
> number of reviews have come to, that I've read in the past.
> 
> *  Blake
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter M. Williams [mailto:PeterWilliams@worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 11:33 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: DSL question from a newbie
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 	I haven't spent much time with computers since 1993.  Last year I
> was
> forced to swap from Mac to IBM, and now I'm starting to play with Linux on a
> PII300 I picked up cheap.  I say play because I haven't' even been able to
> get the thing to recognize the StarOffice CD I bought at the last PLUG
> meeting, so I obviously have a way to go before I can say I 'work' with
> Linux.
> 	Anyway, my questions are about DSL vs. cox cable modem technology.
> Now
> that I'm playing again, I want to play faster.  I'm looking at the Cox cable
> internet and at DSLsource, but I'm open to any other suggestions.  At this
> point, I don't even know if Cox can be used with Linux, and I'm a little
> hesitant to sign with DSLsource, as I would be paying for the slowest speed
> they offer and an IDSL modem.
> Any thoughts?
> Pete
> 
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