Alternatives to Comcast

[Thomas Charron]

On 5/21/08, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> 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 issue? Does it only matter to people who are doing something more
> sophisticated than watching YouTube videos and downloading porn?

  Right off the bat, communications overhead, simply due to the
encapsulation.  Additionally, you're generally PPPoE into a machine,
handling beelions of other PPPoE connections.  This means that your
packets are going thru a peice of software, and not being routed by
hardware, and least between you and your ISP.  Additionally, your
PPPoE connection will occasionally need to be dropped and reconnected
for one reason or another, causing occasional 'blips'.

  Of course, if your just watching YouTube and torrenting porn, those
are tolerable issues.

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-- Thomas