[plug] ADSL: Hardware Gateways vs Linux

[Patrick Tehvand]

Onno Benschop wrote:

> While your conclusion is correct, I should point out that the failure
> rate of the system as a whole is likely higher with more devices,
> because each can fail on its own and the whole system is borked anyway.
> So from a reliability perspective this is worse than a single device.
> 
> Having said that, if this is a home, who cares?

Dominant female of the home when she can't access her iChat :-(

I think we are the only house with a SLA of five 9s and penalty clauses 
that mean very cold night's sleep. ;-)

Patrick