[ale] Please help: BellSouth ADSL hangs with sendmail and up2date

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

PPPoe is just additional overhead to your system.  It's also another 
link to break in the whole process.  Why take the interstate, a state 
road and a county road to get where you're going when the interstate is 
a straight shot?

Mike Panetta wrote:
> If I may ask, what is with the intense hatred for PPPoE on this list?  I
> currently use a Mindspring ADSL connection with PPPoE and its not that
> bad.  Its pretty fast, I seem to get the max theoretical speed possible
> (150K Bytes/s +), but I do have the ocasional outages (I blame this on
> mindspring, and the cheesy DSL bridge that I use though).
> 
> If they do not use PPPoE what do they use?  Is it a streight up bridge,
> or is it DHCP or what?
> 


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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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