[CLUE-Tech] IDSL (was Of Security and Firewalls..)

[Grant Johnson]

At 06:50 AM 03/22/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>I have a cable modem now, and frankly, compared to even IDSL, it sucks.
>  With a cable modem you have 30Mb shared bandwidth for everyone in your
>area, so it slows down during the busy times.  You also have a lot less
>reliable connection and more hops to get on a backbone.
>
>Brandon
Yes, my cable modem has slowed as more people have signed on.  It has 
slowed from about 8mb to about 2mb at the worst times of day.  Still faster 
than the 1.544mb of a T1, so....  I don't really mind.  Reliability is a 
REAL issue, usually they kill a router once a month or 
so.  Morons.  Anyway, for performance, my signal was way too hot coming in, 
and it hurt my performance, and reliability.  Do you occasionally lose RF 
frame sync (lights start blingking orange instead of being solid green) if 
so, here is the $1.29 solution:  Go to Radio Shack, and buy an RF 
attenuator.  There is one for less than 5 bucks, and it is designed for 
cable TV.  When I put it on my system, everything got better, right 
away.  I had been fighting lost RF sync for months.  The techs had been out 
twice a month, and I was on my third cable modem, but they never did figure 
it out.