[luau] Broadband in Hawaii Notes

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Mon May 26 22:39:00 PDT 2003


On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 04:37:42PM -1000, Matt Darnell wrote:
> What DSL offers over cable is a consistant throughput. I know
> there is no CIR with DSL but all of our tests and outside
> sources have indicated that cable burts higher but DSL is more
> staeady. I always recommend people to get cable and home and

Yes. Consistent latency is the largest reason I use DSL.
Otherwise a cable modem would win hands down for the sheer
download capacity. In my experience, it was very painful using
ssh or IPSEC via cable modem to the mainland.

-Vince



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