Re: Dial up vs. cable questions

From: Chaos Master (e-mail_at_is.INVALID)
Date: 01/01/05 

Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 01:42:40 -0200

I wish I had LASERandDVDfan's angel tonight:

> I don't mean to be insulting, but your son is giving you BS.
>
> Spyware, spam, and popups are a problem, period. Regardless if you have
> broadband or dialup. BTW, broadband gives you the additional problem with
> hackers unless you have a firewall installed and/or if the computer is logged
> off the network (which is sometimes only done when the computer is completely
> powered down with the settings in the BIOS for an LAN wakeup is disabled).
> This is because broadband services assigns you one unique IP number that
> identifies your computer to the network every time it's online that never
> changes unless you cancel your service. Dial-up services, on the other hand,
> gives you a temporary IP number which is different every single time you dial
> up to log on. Simply put, broadband allows for faster throughput, but dial up
> allows for greater security.

Some DSL services [1] use DHCP, which gives you different IP
addresses...

[1] Most home services... I have seen fixed IP's in "high-end" (read:
guaranteed speed, but expen$ive) DSL connections that were meant for
business.

BTW, I am on dial-up and there is no pop-ups here... I browse almost
everything with Firefox which has a pop-up blocker.

My Internet Explorer also has Google Toolbar with pop-up blocker.

[]s 

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