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To: Leland Charon who wrote (9770)	12/24/1999 12:15:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	of 14778

I was wondering if anyone here can comment on the stability of a cable modem vs. that of a DSL line (like SDSL)? I have recently moved and now have a cable modem which I am very happy with but was wondering how stable the bandwidth is as opposed to something like DSL (which isn't available at my new location yet)? First let me say I do not have a cable modem. But I have been monitoring the comp.dcom.modems.cable news group. There has been a lot of discussion over there about cable companies reducing the bandwidth, reducing the maximum download and upload data rates, after the service started. The cable companies provided high data transmission rates when they started but soon found they couldn't provide the same level of service when they got a lot of customers so they throttled back the data transmission rate. Furthermore I am suspicious when cable companies advertise blazing fast downloads but never give any hard specifications. My gut reaction is telephone companies are a lot more believable than cable companies when say they will provide a high data transmission rate. Warning DSL data transmission rates will decrease as the distance from a central office increases. One last issue I have is that of security when it comes to a cable modem. Is there anything I can do to "protect" myself? Maybe install a simple firewall or something? At a minimum make sure file and print sharing for Microsoft Networks is unbound from TCP/IP. To make sure file and print sharing is disabled: From the Control Panel double click on the Network Icon. On the Configuration Pane click TCP/IP. Click the File and Print Sharing button. Make sure the "I want to be able to give others access to my files." and I want to be able to allow others to print on my printer(s)" check boxes are not checked. I will leave it up to others to provide information on software and hardware fire walls.

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