| christophe barbé on Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:30:15 +0100 |
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:57:09AM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > > > On the other hand, dial-up is really the low-end of the totem pole > > > these days. > > Yes but to have a correct price for a high speed connection you have to > > sign (and prepaid) for one year and I'm not sure that I will stay one year > > in my first house. > > Fair enough. > > I'm not sure how long I agreed to with Speakeasy... I certainly only > *pay* on a monthly basis and, yeah, paying a full year in advance > does shave some money off it, but I've either not been sure that I > wanted to keep their service or not been sure that I'd be here a > full calender year. Yes so to be concret, how many ? 50$/month > > btw Are these providers using PPPoE or still DHCP ? > > That's kind of comparing apples and oranges, if you meant them to be > compared. Yes after thinking about it a little more I was speaking about apples and oranges. I should have compared PPPoE and direct TCP/IP connection. But AFAIK in france most ISP high speed offers let you manage the PPPoE yourself (this is what I have on my desk right now). The cable modem doesn't speak PPPoE. We can still (foe a few weeks) use direct TCP/IP with it and connect to the network using DHCP but this ISP is switching to PPPoE (claiming 'improved security' when looking for more money by restricting 1 computer per modem). Perhaps new modems take care of PPPoE, I'm not aware enough about it to generalize. > Most DSL uses PPPoE in some sense, but good DSL providers give you a > DSL modem that speaks it and hides it. My understanding is that the > only ISP around here that sticks you with dealing with the PPPoE > yourself, inside of their modem, is Verizon (neé Bell Atlantic), > though there could be others. Verizon also insists that you use > DHCP, won't let you get more than one DHCP lease on the same line, > and isn't to keen on your hiding a network behind the machine with > the DHCP lease. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Attachment:
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