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Old 15-01-2004, 16:13   #4
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Re: How do cablemodems work?

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Originally Posted by Andy C
I can't seem to get him to understand and he wants to make a wager that a cablemodem still uses a system similar to PPP.
He loses the wager. He's confusing cable broadband with ADSL, which does indeed use PPPoA, a mechanism derived from PPP. Cable networks are always-on, do not have a dialer, and PCs get their configuration via DHCP.
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