On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:27:50PM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: > Considering the cable companies have managed to utterly keep out the > competition, PPPOE seems like a pointless exercise. Of course, with > Excite@Home burning in flames, I'm wondering if cable based Internet > will survive. Maybe in the U.S., in Canada were we've had cable for a little longer it's doing quite well, with competition. In fact the cable companies here have been making noises for awhile to drop the Athome name and use their own servers for e-mail, something they were doing before athome even was. This was about a year and a half ago, when the e-mail problems with Athome were quite bad. So we won't really miss the Excite portal or the e-mail services Athome corporate offered. <G> > steve wrote: > > > > 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 > > <snip> > > > > -- > > Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 > > ---------------------------- > > /~\ > > 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / > > you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain. X > > Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email / \ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://wwww.mandrakestore.com > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://wwww.mandrakestore.com -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 ---------------------------- /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain. X Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email / \
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