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

Jeffery C. Cann jccann at home.com
Thu Mar 22 19:20:50 MST 2001


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On Thursday 22 March 2001 07:50, Brandon N 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.

I have not observed these problems with my account.  The point is that a 
cable connection is much better than a dialup and much less expensive than 
most other larger bandwidth alternatives (probably same as DSL, but DSL is 
still quite limited in availability).

Jeff
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