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Hm. I don't think it'd be much of a hindrance. I run 9x, have @home, but never once have I called Tech Support for something wrong on my end... is it really that hard to set up a cable modem? I'm kinda in the same boat, I use a router, and @home doesn't support it, but this isn't rocket science...
Now, I'm no expert (in fact, I'm a moron compared to many of you out there), but don't we strip away some of this redundancy by setting a value for how long our packets survive? TTL... Time To Live, is great for speed. But I'd think the redundancy can come back if you jack up that value, so the packets can survive many more hops.
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Hm. I don't think it'd be much of a hindrance. I run 9x, have @home, but never once have I called Tech Support for something wrong on my end... is it really that hard to set up a cable modem? I'm kinda in the same boat, I use a router, and @home doesn't support it, but this isn't rocket science...
Now, I'm no expert (in fact, I'm a moron compared to many of you out there), but don't we strip away some of this redundancy by setting a value for how long our packets survive? TTL... Time To Live, is great for speed. But I'd think the redundancy can come back if you jack up that value, so the packets can survive many more hops.