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To: TraderAlan who wrote (13491)	7/17/2002 10:51:11 AM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Alan, a couple of links with clear info on broadband: dslreports.com dslwebserver.com Wired my home, Cat 5 and cheated: used the free wire to also distribute the phone. accesscomms.com.au Both cable and DSL on a router: will be the bigger problem. Usually, the gear will allow you to have a backup connection via plain old telephony. You will also have to check the fine print of your providers. Currenrtly, both cable and DSL providers start sniffing the MAC addresses (any Ethernet hardware has a hard coded MAC address, modem, Ethernet cards,....). If your subscription is for une computer only, you could run into trouble with the ISP which could suspend the service if two or more Ethernet cards are spotted concurently. NAT is of no use, it only translates the IP address, not the lower MAC. Having both cable broadband and DSL is searching for trouble if you don't settle for a higher end router. It is possible, but I have kept it simple for my part: a two feet jumper cable in my wiring cabinet <vbg>. You can have your kids play on broadband and keep the (IMHO more secure) DSL for yourself.

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