--- aditya newalkar adityanewalkar@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi, It seems from your explanation that one will need a cable modem only if multiple users are loggin on simultaneously. The advantage is not that of speed but avoiding more wiring connections. Is it that what u mean?
Actually, that is just one implication, and not the most important one either. You could connect a NAT box or proxy server to an Ethernet connection (maybe derived from a cable modem, maybe not), and get the same result.
The point I was trying to make was that installing a personal cable modem is no guarantee of speed. You are going to get speed only if there is suffucuent bandwidth available in the system.
Having said that, remember that you will always get more speed if you have a cable modem to yourself, rather than sharing it between several users.
There is also the question of security. If you're running off a shared Ethernet lan, unless you've secured your system properly, you're going to have possible security issues. I believe cable modem connections are rather more secure, but cannot confirm it since I have never used one.
Rgds,
Krishnan
===== rgds, Aditya N.
Junior Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai, 400076.
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