Re: [NTLK] PPPoE [was: Wavelan]

From: Ivan T. Shaw (ishaw_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 20:32:28 EDT

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At 03:15 PM 9/26/01 -0400, Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox_at_peorth.gweep.net>
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>* "Ivan Shaw" <ishaw_at_sympatico.ca> on Wed, 26 Sep 2001
>This is predicated on the idea that oversubscribing their networks is a
>reasonable thing. Which it isn't.

Nope, it isn't but when you lose regulatory rulings, you impose something
stupid like PPPoE on your users and your resellers. Oh well, at least the
bandwidth is still unlimited.

>| Its implementation in Canada came about after Bell lost a CRTC ruling
>| forcing it to open up its DSL infrastructure to resellers.
>Well, that won't last long. "They" tried that trick in the US. It failed
>miserably.

Coming close to two years now in Canada, with no particular sign of it
going away. I am busy trying to find an ISP willing to offer "corporate"
DSL (real static IPs) to home users willing to pay the premium.

-- Ivan T. Shaw, PhD http://www3.sympatico.ca/ishaw http://www.ivanshaw.com

So why are you still buying Vitamin D?

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