[DM-MUG] Quest DSL

[Matt W]

Enlighten me brotha. Why is it nothing like dial-up, I wanna know! I 
have never configured PPPoE and hear evil things about it. I heard it 
was like dial-up due to the fact that it had to reconnect after a 
time-out period and could take up to 30 seconds to do so.

Matthew

On Apr 24, 2004, at 8:04 AM, Dave Weis wrote:

>
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Matt W wrote:
>> Technology to avoid: PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet?similar to dial-up. It's
>> trouble, at least compared to the alternatives. I don't know if we 
>> have
>> many providers using this in Iowa.
>
> Almost everyone except Freese is using pppoa (atm) or pppoe. It just 
> has
> to do with the encapsulation of data over the wire, it's nothing like
> dialup.
>
> -- 
> Dave Weis
> djweis@internetsolver.com
> http://www.internetsolver.com/
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