Alternatives to Comcast

[Kent Johnson]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/20/08, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Dan Miller <rambi.dev at gmail.com> 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, in Hollis), one box has a combined modem/router/wireless
>> hub with NAT and DHCP, as far as I can tell it's plain vanilla
>> ethernet at the workstation. No PPoE.
>
>  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 issue? Does it only matter to people who are doing something more
sophisticated than watching YouTube videos and downloading porn?

Thanks,
Kent