[olug] What to do with old cable modems

[David Wellsandt]

I'm just curious , Nate, who do you have your DSL through for
$28/month?  I didn't hear anyone that low last time I was shopping.


On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 00:50, Nathan D. Rotschafer wrote:

> I just feel compelled to add that my DSL service has had 100% uptime except
> when _I_ take it down or change something (like rewiring my rack).  As a
> side note I got bumped back down then back up so my final speed is 1.5 mbits
> down and 1.0 mbits up.  Basically the $28 DSL line now just lets you have
> whatever speed you can achieve or at least that is what they did for me.
> They said 1.5 up was generating too many errors or something like that.
> 
> Nate
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Charles Bird
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 12:21 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] What to do with old cable modems
> 
> 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.
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Phil Brutsche
> > phil at brutsche.us
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