[dundee] Telewest Broadband 512Kb

[Steven A. McIntosh]

On Friday 16 January 2004 18:00, Andrew Clayton wrote:

>
> The contentions are different and the way the traffic flows is
> different. IIRC everybody on the same bit of cable sees everyone elses
> traffic (a bit like a LAN, but in an uncontrolled environment) which
> isn't ideal.

If its like a LAN although the data is broadcast to all IP addresses, only the 
one that has the card with the correct MAC address can answer, or have I 
completely misunderstood the basics of TCP/IP networking.
>
> Plus BY do all kinds of nasty stuff to your traffic.
>
Such as ?

Regards

Steven