🚀 go-pugleaf

Thus spake Andrew Sun
>It's called marketing, and the {A}DSL providers bought it, hook, line,
>and sinker.

Bingo.

>Many advantages of PPPoE are a marketing illusion.  Much of which can
>be implemented with technically better alternatives.  Multiple
>sessions?  Allocate another IP address.  

Or use a different tunneling protocol.

>From this users point of view, PPPoE is a real nuisance.

>It emulates dial-up service in this day and age when internet service
>should be always on.

Heh...you want the ultimate user nuisance experience provided by a LEC?
Check out Cincinnati Bell's Zoomtown DSL service.  Good grief.  If
you've experienced this abomination, then this is enough said...if you
haven't...be glad you're only dealing with PPPoE crap.

>At least there exist competing cable-tv internet service providers who
>can provide the more desirable, unaltered ethernet connectivity.

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You're serious about saying there are cable-tv providers providing
"unaltered ... connectivity?"  What a joke!

>As for some of the ADSL providers out there, still too little (and it's
>PPPoE), too late, and for too many dollars.  Competition is a good
>thing.

There are those of us out there that are providing Internet Access over
DSL, and doing so in a sane, well thought out way...unfortunately, I
fear we are way too few and far between.

>(Gee, I hope my rantings can make a difference) Just another author's
>opinion. . .

Preach it brother.
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