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Old 15-01-2004, 17:41   #7
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Wink Re: How do cablemodems work?

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Originally Posted by rdhw
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.
Doesn't the AOL service via Cablemodem on NTLs network use PPPoA?
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