Alternatives to Comcast

[Tom Buskey]

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 w/o providing extra function to
the end user.  The end use's network connection is slowed down some as the
ethernet packets get encapsulated inside PPP packets.

It might help to think of it like a VPN - it creates a layer on top of your
network connection.  But a VPN offers encryption for the extra cpu cycles,
ram and bandwidth required.

In some setups, each client on your home network needed a PPPoE agent.  Most
firewall/routers will do PPPoE for your whole internal network.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:

> 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
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