I've worked mostly with DSL and of course dialup, and
once with RR. Other companies included Bellsouth,
Auglink(st.augustine), and various others. They all
seem to have disclaimers and such with the "average"
user (cough cough Winders) saying something about only
using one computer and such. Everytime I've grilled
them on it, all anyone ever said to me was "Well, do
whatever you want, but if you want support then you
need to run just one computer" Bah, like Steve said,
most of the time they can't tell anyway. I think it's
just a way for them to try to eek for profits out of
the sheep herd. I guess what I'm asking is this: Has
anyone out there had any contract or legal issues with
running a network behind a DSL or Cable connection? I
have heard of companies getting irritated about how
much bandwidth is used, but these days I could run 100
websites and still not come close to using the
bandwidth that streaming media uses off just one
machine.
BTW... Thanks Steve for your calm demeanor... I try
not to sound inflamatory.. and I never mean too, but
sometimes it happens.
--- steve <steve@itcom.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 27 February 2003 21:38,
> res0gny2@verizon.net wrote:
> > Hey all...I'm a lurker with somethign to say.
> >
> > > On Thursday 27 February 2003 20:02, Robert Eanes
> wrote:
> > > > I was intrigued by your description of DSL vs
> Cable.
> > > > erroneous. the cheapest solution from DSL has
> a
> > > > stated speed of 768 bits per second down and
> 128 bits
> > >
> > > Odd, when I last checked it was 384 down. Where
> did you see
> > > this?
> >
> > It's been that way for a while...they changed it
> sometime last
> > year. I have the 1.5M down, and I remember getting
> some
> > literature last year that mentioned this.
>
> Ah, and you are probably in the Tampa area?
>
> > > Today I'd be surpriced to see that. As I said TW
> knows it's
> > > theirs for the taking as long as they don't mess
> it up again.
> > > In the last four years I've been at two
> different locations and
> > > never seen less than just shy of 2K down.
> >
> > Well, what about Comcast? I had cable along with
> my Verizon DSL
> > last summer and Comcast was quick for browsing,
> about 1.5-1.8 for
> > downloads, but crawled at uploads.
>
> Never used Comcast myself...
>
> > My big problem is that my cable user agreement
> mentioned that I'm
> > not allowed to use NAT, which makes having
> multiple computers a
> > little bit harder...but right on the front
> verizon.net page it
> > mentions you can have more than one computer one
> your connection.
>
> With RR they know I have a firewall and an unknown
> amount of
> computers. Actually they could not even see my
> OpenBSD box and
> wondered how I could be online (during a tech
> support call). They
> like Unix people as they run it themselves. The
> enginers I've
> spoken with have been very nice. But you have to go
> through the
> Open Ticket option when you call otherwise their
> entry level is out
> of state with less access & know how, to the local
> cable.
>
> > I'd be more than happy to go with a cable modem
> and cancel my
> > friggin phone line altogether if it weren't for
> that.
>
> --
>
> Steve
>
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