On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Kurt Seifried wrote:
Cable Internet is a shared medium, not a point to point connection like internet by modem/isdn/etc. @Home won't stop broadcasters.
Sigh, no this is false. @home providers are basically a consortium to share advertising costs/etc, the technology used varies hugely. Some are quite bad, some are quite good. You generally don't hear about the good ones because users don't complain.
Ok, I agree. My apologize for not mentioning 'NL' because I do know some @Home providers in the USA which are pretty good. In the Netherlands much @Home members complain about wrong DNS entries, broadcast traffic, down e-mailservers, abuse, etc. We almost had a usenet death penalty a few months ago. The service from @Home in NL is really bad, the network quality to. I never had a reply on a complaint, my friends neither. Ok, this is probably getting off-topic, so I'll stop complaining at my ISP in this security mailinglist. It's just to show Frank that he should not suspect to much from @Home in the Netherlands and that the only solution (i know) is patching your 3com networkcard driver. If anyone knows a solution to stop seing broadcast traffic, I am listening... Regards, Siert -- Usefull information for @Home NL Members Troubles@Home http://members.home.nl/gebruikers Newsgroups athome.nl.linux, athome.nl.netwerk, athome.nl.security