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.
Here in Thailand, running a monoply is the modus operandi.
> 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
> > ----------------------------
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