This obviously depends on your personal desires but I thought most cable companies / providers strictly disallow hosting of any kind on your local machine. But if it is kept quite or strictly private, they'll probably never know. Where on the other hand, I thought most DSL providers were more permissive in that way. I could be all wrong here though. -----Original Message----- From: Kirk Wood [mailto:cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:22 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Linux and High speed accessability In all the discussion about the speed of networking option, has anyone considered the speed of the connection? If your primary thing is internet access, then getting 100mbit connections won't help much. DSL tops out about 1.5 and cable arround 2. And yes, cable is faster then DSL on a consistant basis. I have compared real world speeds with a number of friends using dsl and cable. The cable consistantly gives a slight edge. Neither is a clear leader. And the "security" of dsl is just pure horse sh__. There is no such thing as a secure internet connection. And do you really give a damn if the neighbor somehow detects that you went to the smut site? Give me a break. My cable modem filters out all TCP traffic bound for mac addresses that aren't accessing it. I think this is pretty standard. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive." - President George Bush _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
