On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 06:01:19PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > cable ... its you and all your neighbors .... watching/sharing that copper Not quite. It's about as insecure as any other network either way. The shared bandwidth problem is a myth on cable, but severe on DSL (DSL users get to fight with all other DSL users in thier entire city for what bandwidth's left in the ATM cloud after all the gauranteed connections (ISDN, T1/T3, etc) get thier share, cable users share with whoever else is on thier node, usually no more than 70 folks, and the bandwidth to the node is usually more than will ever be used by all the users pegging at their bandwidth cap (usually 3 or 5 Mbps/household). -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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