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[Tcat]

Correct. DSL rides on your copper pair going back to the Central Office. A thingie called the DSLAM splits off your Internet and the wire continues down to the Central Office switch that is your phone #.

Cable is more like a huge Local Area Network. A single laser point in the network is fiber optic to the head. They can run a considerable amount of users off one laser. (Fiber is fast and doesn't have that pesky distance problem DSL has.) That means without DOCSIS, and you have file and printer sharing on.... you are completely open.

In the early days I used to send text messages to the neighor's printers, telling them to stop sharing their computers ;-)

FYI today the new thing is wireless printers. I was getting ready for class at the motel checking email when someone turned on an HP printer that is wireless. You can tell because they always broadcast themselves as HPSETUP. I've been temped to type some text in a notepad file like,

"There out there!
I want to believe"

and create a generic text printer in my printers. Then when HPSETUP shows up, I just pop the notepad file open and hit print

:twisted:

[mjsantos]

I personally use smoke signals, its a bit slow but its get my point across.

[Tcat]

I finished my first "on-line" class today. It required that the web and VoIP be pretty close to *perfect*. 10 hours of class, and CableMas was Perfect. :!: