[ale] OT: How fast is your connection, and how much do you pay?

[Geoffrey]

Charles Marcus wrote:

> You have to have either a DSL modem or a Cable modem - unless you are using IFITL (Integrated-fiber-in-the-loop), in which case you do not need a modem, it plugs directly into a NIC or the WAN port of the Cable/DSL router).

Agreed.

> Huh?  Above you said 'you wouldn't use a modem', then here you say you do...  now I'm confused...

I was assuming that when you said usb modem, it was an analog modem. 
I've not seen a usb cable/dsl modem.  Not that they don't exist, just 
that I may have made an incorrect assumption.

So yeah, you need one of the following, dsl modem, cable modem, analog 
modem, (satellite modem???).  What I was trying to say, but did not is 
that you don't need an analog modem if you've got dsl/cable.

-- 
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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