At 06:55 ðì 17/4/2001, you wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:08:16AM -0500, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
> > After about a month of trouble I got rid of my Cable connection which
> means
> > I will finally be able to concentrate on my pages...
> > For those of you who like me :-) here's my new email address as of
> tomorrow:
> >
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (DSL instead of #@!@#!$% cable)
>
>what was the problem with cable?
Ahhh where can I start and where can I finish really..
In a small town like the one I'm in, cable companies tend to think YOU
GOTTA HAVE em....
Customer support sucks BIG TIME, Outages ALL THE TIME, no accountability on
problems whatsoever, and of course shared bandwidth that from the
advertised 1Mbit/128Kbit line speed gave me 10 days ago the AMAZING speed
of 14Kbytes DOWN / 16 Kbytes UP... Yep and for all this AMAZING speed I had
to pay 49$ a month!
For the same price I get DSL and 1500 Mb/384Kb (max granted and I am far
away from my Telephone company but at least speeds are consistent)
One note for any of you that gets xDSL in Europe (I believe they started
offering it in Germany the UK and Greece). Try to avoid the PPPoE protocol
if you can... gives too much overhead :-)
> > (Now all I need is PPPoE for the Q40 (and working with an Ethernet
> adapter ;-)
>
>I won't expect any problems with it, in Linux.
>
>Bye
>Richard
