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RE: NTL Cable Modem
- To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: NTL Cable Modem
- From: "Des Gibbons" <des@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:14:01 -0000
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> 1. You might want to investigate the contention ratio - just in
> case you pay
> for 512 and end up getting 20!
There is no published contention ratio for NTL cable service, suffice to
say, I normally get 60-70 Kbyte/sec at all times of day.
>
> 3. Is a cable modem a true modem (i.e. uses DUN) or does it
> connect through
> ethernet? The one nice thing about USB ADSL is that it uses DUN
> to connect,
> so it is easy to set up nat/ics for connection sharing (providing you
are
> with the 'right' ISP).
It presents on Ethernet, which makes it much more flexible than a usb
solution.
DesG
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