----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Dier" <dieman+tclug at ringworld.org> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] AT&T/Mediaone does it again? > * Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy at veldy.net> [010809 09:00]: > > many DSL users CAN run servers. They need to compete. Cable infrastructure > > is setup as a client system and not a server system. It is very > > Not because of the technology, but policing thousands of napster/etc > services got really stupid annoying. > Yes, because of technology. You clog your upload pipe on a Cable Modem, and all other uses on the node may suffer your greediness (DOCIS seems to have changed that some with timeshare round-robin stuff). A few people on the node clog the upload pipe and the entire node becomes congested because acks on regular user downloads can not get through. On DSL, assuming a properly configured ATM cloud, a single user clogs their upload pipe and it does not affect ANY other user until it gets to the ISP level. That level cable modem users must also endure. So, with the cable modem, your neighbors can screw you as well as your ISP, with DSL, only your ISP can screw you. Since, AT&T has not control at the neighborhood level, they don't want users hosting services. The only thing they can do is reassign homes to different nodes (which is most likely expensive, especially if they reduce the number of users per node) or cut of the service. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net > -- > Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> <sdier at debian.org> > http://www.ringworld.org/ #linuxos at irc.openprojects.net > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >