Cable/DSL dilemma

[Chris Mitchell]

Has anyone here been successful with subnetting their own network with a cable modem connection?  I 
have not tried yet but am skeptical since it is a dynamic IP. Heck I haven't even bothered to 
figure out how long the lease life is on an IP that RR leases on it's network.  Does anyone know 
that?  I guess it wouldn't be so bad if the lease life was, say, 75 days.  Anyway I have been 
tempted by the fruit of DSL with Futurenet but am skeptical of performance because their 
competitive package's bandwidth for transmitting is 128K (download is around 600K).  I like doing 
the online gaming thing and heard complaints from DSL users.  I smoke with my cable connection, 
granted I am fighting for bandwidth and don't have a dedicated connection to a switch.  Anyone know 
of a program that gives upload/download speeds on a network connection so I can check my cable 
connection?

Chris Mitchell
bonovox at kc.rr.com
squish362 at yahoo.com
mitchec2 at leavenworth.army.mil