[cobalt-users] RE: No.. No... Not hosting on cable...

["Nicolae" <nicolaep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:16:31 -0700 (MST)
> From: Brent Sims <bs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] How many can I host on a T1 Line (Cobalt 4)
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Nicolae wrote:
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> } Although Business CABLE Modem program might just appear in my
> neighborhood.
> } I just wish they get it out sooner.  For extra a month they will provide
> } higher speed Cable access for business usage.  If I get T1 access via
> } my Cable company using their Business program for about $150/month I
> } wouldn't mind using them.
>
> Hi Nicolae,
>
> 	I think it important for you to know that you are not
> talking T1 here but Cable. There's a huge difference beyond that
> which is obvious. Cable technology is very similar to that which is
> used to create a network in a home, office or a data center.
> Basically, "neighborhood" groups of Cable users share something akin
> to a port on a Ethernet hub or switch. Regardless of what the label
> "Business" may imply, realize that every user in the group that your
> cable connection is in will have the kind of access to your bit
> stream that will allow them to easily sniff traffic and passwords.
> Even the like's of SSH won't protect you. I have a sniffer here
> which will sniff the ports on all of our switches and across
> the switches themselves and which gives me the plain text version of
> more than enough supposedly secured passwords to make it more than a
> bit difficult for me to sleep at night.
>
> 	I'm not saying that you shouldn't do this. Quite the
> contrary in fact. We started on a DSL connection and today, just
> three years or so later, we've got better connectivity and more
> of it than all the local ISPs that helped us get here have. Knock
> yourself out, and the best of luck to you. If I, a complete idiot,
> can do it someone as sharp as you won't have a bit of trouble. I am,
> however, suggesting that if you are going to be getting paid for
> hosting web sites than you really ought to be thinking about at
> least starting with a T1 kind of T1 and a real network behind it.
> Today a nice solid fractional T1, powered by a reputable National
> provider can be had for about the same price as the DSL connection
> we started on - which wasn't a whole lot more than that Cable
> connection you envision is going to cost you.


No... No.. mis-communication here. I am not looking to host on cable
or ever, but thought about it.  I am at home PC running Time Warner
cable connection to browse the internet.  I use a data-center
in Virnginia (I am in Calif) and have a leased Cobalt 4 Raq
unit in their data center.  I am complaining about the speed I get
from them and it is because it's slow.  I get faster speeds on
my cable than these guys in the datacenter.

Thanks to David Lucas on this mailing list.  He pointed me to
dslreports.com which I have used in the past for dsl but never
knew they do monitoring and such.  I activated an account for
traffic monitoring stuff and here is the link.

http://www.dslreports.com/monitored/pp/65.170.79.187

I don't know much about the stats but I think its slow based on
what people say.  I also opened up 3, 4 and 6 windows
donloading the file: http://www.mp3bynet.com/xtunnel.zip to
test out the speed.  It dropped to 12kbps.  I get 300-600kbps
from download.com or other various sites.

I think the reports I get above from DSLReports might be able
to tell my ISP that something is wrong and their new T1 Line
they got in the datacenter is not really helping...

My unit is empty with parked sites.  No major traffic. Hardly any.

I am only hosting sites for cleints I design their site for.
I might as well lease a cobalt for 150/month and host 15-20
sites pay the bill and also park my 10 or so domains also.

Maybe smeone can shed a light on this report:
http://www.dslreports.com/monitored/pp/65.170.79.187
Let me know what you think... you can email me
or reply here...

Hmmm I'll do more reading on packet sniffing...
I thought Win2K Server came with one to monitor
incomming and outgoing packets.... but that's
an entire new thing for me to learn/understand
what they are and so on...

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