[olug] What to do with old cable modems

[Charles Bird]

DSL usually is good however u are correct in the comaprison to a t-1 being better for those that need the failsafe.
 there is a way to multilink without isp cooperation, well so I'm told by an "old timer".


----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:13:47 -0500
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Subject: Re: [olug] What to do with old cable modems

> Charles Bird wrote:
> > I've heard about "shotgun DSL" I wonder if there is a way to do that
> >  with cable? I know that not to many people know about shotgun DSL
> > and I really havnt figured it out yet either but basicly you can get
> > two lines two dsl routers and one IP
> 
> Multilink PPP.  AFAIK for that you need your ISP to cooperate.
> 
> > however I've heard that it really works out the DNS. So if one were 
> > to get the 1.5Mb/896Kb line X 2 that would be faster than a T-1 in
> > theory  and for less than half the price too!
> 
> And with an even less reliable link to the CO! (At least in my 
> experience DSL can't compare to a T1 from a reliablity POV)
> 
> > But with cable the upload would only be up to 512k and download would
> > be around 6Mb...I dont think its worth trying until cox gives us 
> > 512kb up per line.
> 
> It is my understanding that Cox's head-end equipment can only support a 
> small # of subscribers per node with a 512 kbit upstream.
> 
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> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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