[ale] PPPOE vs TCPIP

[James P. Kinney III]

It will have little effect on you. I have set up many people using
roaring penguin pppoe on earthlink and at works just fine. It does take
a bit of overhead, but it is negligable. 

Many ISP's do it because it benefits them to require a login process.
That way, if you change hardware on your end, it won't require that they
do anything.

On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 21:46, David S. Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently had to change ISPs.  My new provider (earthlink)
> does ADSL using PPPOE instead of straight TCP/IP.  What are the
> effects of this?  Why do they do this, and can it have any
> negative impact on me?
> 
> TIA!
> 
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