Cable/DSL dilemma

[Brian Kelsay]

http://msn.zdnet.com/partners/msn/bandwidth/speedtest500.htm
<http://msn.zdnet.com/partners/msn/bandwidth/speedtest500.htm> 
 
check that link for a speed test.  By segmenting, do you mean that you want
to connect multiple PCs to your cable connection?  If so, why not build a
Linux Firewall/Router?  Try Freesco, it works great for me.
http://www.freesco.org <http://www.freesco.org>   Has an easy setup menu or
you can hand edit the proper text files.  Whatever, pick your poison.  If
you lean more towards the hand editing you can go to
http://www.linuxrouter.org <http://www.linuxrouter.org>  .  And from what I
can tell, cable is better.  For now.
 
Brian Kelsay

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Mitchell [mailto:cmitchell at kc.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 7:13 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Cable/DSL dilemma

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 <mailto:bonovox at kc.rr.com> 
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