On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:13:08AM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote:
> I thought PPPOE was for DSL. Why would cable kill itself with this?
> And do cable systems continue working without having PPPOE installed?
> (So far, Cox@Home hasn't switched to using such a system. Thank
> whatever diety as appropriate.)
FWIU, it's all about revenue. With PPOE they can cram more users on their
pipes as everyone is not on 24/7 and...in Canada anyways, the offical
reason is because legislation require them to open the pipes to
competitors. Using PPOE type of sofware the cable company then can
determine which user is theirs or a resellers.
PPOE actually was developed in Canada by Bell Sympatico for use with
their high speed ADSL, they must have made in Open Source because it was
since about 2 years ago, it has been provided by them for download by
anybody who wished to do so.
> >Bill Thompson wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Friday, technicians will be at my home to do a cable modem
> > installation. The software provided is ppoe from Network
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