Derek, I seem to recall that you were using something faster than 56k, but can't recall if you are using a cable modem.
In any event, I was just looking into getting a cable modem and found that the one offered nearby, and soon possibly in my town, provides a cable modem, but requires that the host system, i.e. my desktop system, have a 10baseT ethernet card. They currently reccommend and install the 3com Etherlink III.
This is news to me, as a COMS holder good news I might add, as I hadn't realized that as a home user I really had any use for ethernet interface to my machine. As I think about it now though, I can see that the higher speed coming in through the serial port would be pretty consuming and inefficient, compared to a higher speed buffered network interface. COMS then has an even broader opportunity for providing not only cable modems, but internal cable modem/ethernet combo card.
So if you have a cable modem, is this the way that you are connected? Or am I thinking of someone else that is using cable modem? |
