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| reply to rchandra
Re: Other way bucko
Clearly you don't know much about cablemodems. Without some sort of serious hardware hacking, you can't "sniff" your neighbor's traffic with DOCSIS cable modems, because the modem establishes a secure encrypted link with the headedend. You're not just stuck on a standard ethernet LAN with your block. And even if they could sniff it, do you really think your DSL connection is any more secure? Reality check: It's much easier for that malicious neighbor to rummage through your trash for your personal information than it is to monitor your DSL or cable connection for that one packet out of hundreds of thousands (which is probably also SSL encrypted) that might happen to contain something useful like a credit card number.
Us cable modem users have been enjoying fast speeds for a long time now. DSLReports' own speed test result archive is pretty telling. Cable technology works. Look at Optimum Online's average throughput. Face it, the internet is a shared medium. Your DSL is also shared at the CO and can be prone to traffic slowdowns in much the same manner. In order to extend reach, SBC (and others I assume) are moving towards using remote gateways powered by shared fiber links. If you want a real dedicated connection, you're going to be spending far more than $40-$100 per month.
Personally, I'm not surprised in the least that residential CLEC DSL is tanking now that tech stocks have depleted. There's too many parties that want peices of the pie. $40/month can only be split up so many ways. And it's not even good for the consumer, look at all the finger pointing that happens when there are problems. I'll stick with my cablemodem. If it's broke, the cable company comes out and fixes it, end of story, because there's no one else to blame! |
Sorry, youre wrong. I work for a CLEC DSL provider.If you are running NAT and/or DHCP with DSL it will be extremely difficult for anyone to hack your computer (static IP) As far as cable is concerned, I have personally seen people able to access their neighbors hard drive just by clicking on Network Neighborhood and picking out who they want to hack.. I have seen it on more than one computer and you cannot convince me otherwise. Cable is a shared network. DSL is a private network up to the CO and way more secure. Cable is an open invitation to "come in and look around..."