gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:15:01 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] DSL "guaranteed" speed


On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 06:33:11PM -0800, Jim Trocki wrote:
> a subnet mask of 255.255.248.0 gives 21 bits for the network number and
> 11 bits for hosts on that network, which is (2^11) - 2 , or 2046 hosts.

Even aside from the fact that Comcast probably doesn't have that
many customers on a single circuit (um, actually, they may well,
come to think of it), you've got to subtract a few of those IP addrs
for network hardware.

But yeah, that math's right.

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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