cbrain
join:2000-05-21
Silver Spring, MD Reviews:
 ·Future Nine Corp..
·Google Voice
 ·Verizon FiOS
 ·DSL EXTREME
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Re: Anyone sucessfully switched from PPPoE to DHCP? said by cdru:I don't know if it's still the case, but back with DSL PPPoE customers were over provisioned more then DHCP to account for the overhead. As a result their real-world speeds were often faster then their DHCP counterparts. Other then that, there isn't really a advantage for PPPoE for the end user. ... So that overhead does make a difference. 
said by cdru:said by cbrain:Isn't it up to each user to make their own choice? Honestly, no. I don't think it's a "choice" of the consumer. You are paying for a internet connection. PPPoE or DHCP, they are both industry norms and very widely supported. If it was some obscure technology that no one supported then people can complain. But who cares what format the data is transmitted. As long as you get your stated speed, low latency, and don't have packet loss, what difference does it really make if it was transmitted even using a string and two cups? My choice would be to not use a string and two cups.
I had USNet/Covad DSL with a static IP in '99/2000, and never would consider DSL using PPPoE. When I ordered FiOS, my understanding was they were planning to transition us in a year or 2. I have written confirmation this is still the plan but no date.
My current array of choices include terminating FiOS for 31 days the re-ordering from Verizon or a FiOS reseller. I am attempting to eliminate the overhead of so many changes for both Verizon and myself. |
 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:5
·Frontier FiOS
| said by cbrain:So that overhead does make a difference. Point taken, but in the case of DSL it was from the days when 1.5mbit was the fastest you could get for about 2x what FiOS costs these days and people really bitched about not getting every last drop that they were paying for. On a 768 or 1500 kbit connection, 8 bytes per packet feels like a lot more then what it does on a 20mbit connection.
Good luck with whatever you end up doing. Be sure to follow up with the experience for others to reference in the future. |
