[nmglug] today's choice on qwest vs. comcast, upper canyon road area

[Matthew McCleary]

Also, if security is a concern, sniffing traffic is far easier on a cable
connection (due to the shared nature of the medium) than it is with DSL.

Matthew

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Tom Farrell <thf at aol.com> wrote:

> Hi...
>
> If your friend like to fuss about with computers, he or she might like the
> option to setup a server. I believe ComCast forbids servers on their
> network, while Qwest actually encourages users to setup servers (or, used
> to).
>
>     Tom
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Irish <irish.masms at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 1:30 pm
> Subject: Re: [nmglug] today's choice on qwest vs. comcast, upper canyon
> road area
>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Mark Galassi <mark at galassi.org> wrote:
>
> >
>
> > Dudes, a friend of mine is thinking of getting cable modem or DSL, and
>
> > cannot decide.  I have had rather reliable qwest.net DSL for many years,
>
> > but I hear it changes in various parts of town, and that other people
>
> > have nightmares with qwest and are happy with comcast.
>
> >
>
> > Does anyone here have inside knowledge on how the two approaches compare
>
> > on upper canyon road?
>
>
> DSL performance/throughput depends on how far you are from the DMARC.
>
> The closer you are, the better/faster you will have. Cable modem
>
> performance depends on how many folks are using the same section of
>
> the network.
>
>
> I went with DSL, since I was close to the DMARC and scored a spare
>
> modem from a coworker. Also, I will never give any money to comcrap.
>
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