On 08/04/02 12:32 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On 8 Apr 2002 at 11:24, Dr . Sharukh K . R . Pavri . wrote: > > > > > I am getting a choice of braodband access in the sense that I am being offered > > DSL (Dishnet) and Cable access (Hathway). both are costing *almost* the same > > as far as monthly/yearly dues, though if I opt for a personal cable modem, I > > will have to pay a little more (~8000 bucks) for the modem. > > I guess 1500/- a month is a better choice rather than investing in cable > modem. > And as I have repeated in number of threads on this list, Putting a cable > modem > for each connection is waste of it. Put a modem in front of a switch and > connect few clients to that switch. Modi/Mantra MSN configured my cable > access Maintaining the LAN is expensive for the cable company. And you are far more likely to see problems with the hubs that will be probably used to save money. A cheaper alternative would be for the building residents to maintain their own LAN and only have the modem provider responsible upto the modem.
> that way and I was getting 64kbps good quality.. No ISP can currently afford to provide local LAN support to buildings. Even if many are doing that, the customer will have to pay up for that later in some way or the other. To answer the original question, properly configured DSL would be better than cable, but Dishnet is bad. They are just plain incompetent. Go with Hathway since the only other choice seems to be dishnet. Devdas Bhagat _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
