[olug] What to do with old cable modems

[Nathan D. Rotschafer]

I just feel compelled to add that my DSL service has had 100% uptime except
when _I_ take it down or change something (like rewiring my rack).  As a
side note I got bumped back down then back up so my final speed is 1.5 mbits
down and 1.0 mbits up.  Basically the $28 DSL line now just lets you have
whatever speed you can achieve or at least that is what they did for me.
They said 1.5 up was generating too many errors or something like that.

Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Charles Bird
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 12:21 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] What to do with old cable modems

DSL usually is good however u are correct in the comaprison to a t-1 being
better for those that need the failsafe.
 there is a way to multilink without isp cooperation, well so I'm told by an
"old timer".


----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:13:47 -0500
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Subject: Re: [olug] What to do with old cable modems

> Charles Bird wrote:
> > I've heard about "shotgun DSL" I wonder if there is a way to do that
> >  with cable? I know that not to many people know about shotgun DSL
> > and I really havnt figured it out yet either but basicly you can get
> > two lines two dsl routers and one IP
> 
> Multilink PPP.  AFAIK for that you need your ISP to cooperate.
> 
> > however I've heard that it really works out the DNS. So if one were 
> > to get the 1.5Mb/896Kb line X 2 that would be faster than a T-1 in
> > theory  and for less than half the price too!
> 
> And with an even less reliable link to the CO! (At least in my 
> experience DSL can't compare to a T1 from a reliablity POV)
> 
> > But with cable the upload would only be up to 512k and download would
> > be around 6Mb...I dont think its worth trying until cox gives us 
> > 512kb up per line.
> 
> It is my understanding that Cox's head-end equipment can only support a 
> small # of subscribers per node with a 512 kbit upstream.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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