Answer I've always gotten is. We don't support networking but what you do is your business! Amanda Lee On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Holmes, Steve wrote: > 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 at 1tree.net] > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
