On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Right off the bat, communications overhead, simply due to the
>> encapsulation.
> Covered in my message to Tom Buskey. It's always there.
PPPo
On 5/21/08 10:21 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Actually, you can. RJ-11 plugs fit nicely in RJ-45 jacks. Alas, this
> is not likely to do what you want. In fact, when that ring voltage
> comes in on the line... ZAP!
Ethernet and POTS service can co-exist peacefully (at
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right off the bat, communications overhead, simply due to the
> encapsulation.
Covered in my message to Tom Buskey. It's always there.
> Additionally, you're generally PPPoE into a machine,
> handling beelions of oth
> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:03:47 -0400
> From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Um. DSL isn't Ethernet. It actually closely resembles a high-speed
> serial connection. PPP makes sense. If your DSL equipment is giving
> it's always doing *something*. You can't just hook an Ethernet cable
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Instead of doing just Ethernet and TCP/IP, PPPoE runs PPP over Ethernet.
> PPP's original purpose was to allow TCP/IP to run over a serial line/modem.
Um. DSL isn't Ethernet. It actually closely resembles a high-speed
ser
On 5/21/08, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you have a dynamic IP, then your ActionTek box is logging into
> > TDS via PPPoE.
> OK. Newbie question - since AFAICT this is invisible to me, why is it
> an iss
Instead of doing just Ethernet and TCP/IP, PPPoE runs PPP over Ethernet.
PPP's original purpose was to allow TCP/IP to run over a serial line/modem.
PPPoE makes Ethernet look like a Dialup to the ISP so all the tools they
developed for modem banks work.
PPPoE add a layer to your network connection
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/20/08, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Dan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I've never done DSL before, but I know its different
>> > setup with PPoE and such.
>> Not
On 5/21/08, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/20/08, Chip Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On May 20, 2008, Dan Miller sent me the following:
> > For what it's worth, back when I had DirecTV, I noticed the same MPEG
> > encoding artifacts that I see on Comcast, generally durin
On 5/20/08, Chip Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 20, 2008, Dan Miller sent me the following:
> For what it's worth, back when I had DirecTV, I noticed the same MPEG
> encoding artifacts that I see on Comcast, generally during high motion
> scenes or scenes with low lighting. From what
On 5/20/08, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Dan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've never done DSL before, but I know its different
> > setup with PPoE and such.
> Not sure what you mean by that. I'm no networking guru, but I have DSL
> (from TDS, i
On 5/20/08, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 21:29 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> That won't be the case Real Soon Now, thanks to the Hauppauge HD-PVR. My
> buddy at Hauppauge pinged me a few weeks back about what MythTV
> developer to put one in the hands of to add suppor
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 12:28 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On May 20, 2008, at 21:50, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>
> > It takes in high definition component (ypbpr) video and encodes it in
> > real-time to h.264, the spits it out via USB2 to your computer. In
> > other
> > words, it completely bypasses
On May 20, 2008, at 21:50, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> It takes in high definition component (ypbpr) video and encodes it in
> real-time to h.264, the spits it out via USB2 to your computer. In
> other
> words, it completely bypasses any and all drm via the analog hole.
> Might
> lose a bit of quali
On May 21, 2008, at 08:03, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> FYI, Speakeasy DSL is *NOT* PPPoE, it's the good stuff.
Last year in Lebanon, Residential DSL was PPPoE and Business DSL
wasn't. That tripped me up for 15 minutes or so on one office setup.
I have Dish Network for TV and it's fairly reasonabl
On May 20, 2008, at 22:33, Ben Scott wrote:
> Maybe it's because we always seem to be doing both at
> once. :-/
+1 Insightful.
On May 20, 2008, at 23:16, Arc Riley wrote:
> we need to break the last mile problem, then let competition reign.
> ...
> if enough people want to and are willing to p
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FYI, Speakeasy DSL is *NOT* PPPoE, it's the good stuff.
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On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Dan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm in Southern Nashua. Right at the border, so I think that mv.com is
> out. I will look into fairpoint though. I know I can't get fiber (that
> would be ideal
On Tue, 20 May 2008 21:29:55 -0400
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got a friend who has DirecTV and really likes it. Same number
> of channels, same quality, for less money. He says he almost never
> has signal problems ("rain fade") -- only if there's heavy, wet snow
> on the dis
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