Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/8 Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm thinking of moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable). I wanted to know 2 things: 1 - Since today I have an ADSL router (bought from Bezek), I no longer use pptp, NAT or any other Linux tools to connect to the Internet. The router is the only computer

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/9 Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now I'm confused. Firstly, I certainly don't expect to plug the HOT modem into the ADSL plug. As I already wrote (see quote above), I thought I could plug the HOT modem into one of the ethernet ports. I may be missing something, but I don't

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:20:22PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Now I'm confused. Firstly, I certainly don't expect to plug the HOT modem into the ADSL plug. As I already wrote (see quote above), I thought I could plug the HOT modem into one of the ethernet ports. I may be missing something,

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:23:23AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have lots of problems with Hot disconnecting and very high latency. Hot blames Nezeq Beinleimi, Nezek blames Hot. I personally believe that Nezeq is to blame for the latency, but Hot is to blame for the _hours_ of downtime every

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread shimi
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: Do remember that unlike PPTP/L2TP, as far as my firewall is concerned (which connects directly over Ethernet to the HOT modem), I'm using normal IP-over-Ethernet to

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread Geoff Shang
Shlomo Solomon wrote: My assumption is that I could still use the same router after moving to HOT. I would just have to unplug the ADSL line and plug the HOT modem into one of the ethernet ports on the router. Am I correct? well if you want to still use the router as a router, I'd think that

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Thursday 09 October 2008, shimi wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: My assumption is that I could still use the same router after moving to HOT. I would just have to unplug the ADSL line and plug the HOT modem into one of the ethernet ports on the router. Am I

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread shimi
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2008, shimi wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: My assumption is that I could still use the same router after moving to HOT. I would just have to unplug the ADSL

Re: router compatibility (was Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable))

2008-10-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:47:39AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: OK - so assuming I can't use the router I bought fom Bezeq after moving to HOT, can anyone say if they've had any Linux experience (good or bad) using the cheap routers sold by www.ivory.co.il? The two models they have are: 1 -

router compatibility (was Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable))

2008-10-10 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Friday 10 October 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: The usual routers only have one ethernet port on the LAN side, not 4. It is connected to an internal 5 port hub, so you get 4 LAN ports to plug things into, but the router part only sees one port. OK - so assuming I can't use the router I

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:20:22PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2008, shimi wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: My assumption is that I could still use the same router after moving to HOT. I would just have to unplug the ADSL line and

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-09 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 09:41:48PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: Do remember that unlike PPTP/L2TP, as far as my firewall is concerned (which connects directly over Ethernet to the HOT modem), I'm using normal IP-over-Ethernet to connect to the Internet (with somewhat lower MTU). You are a very

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-09 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: Do remember that unlike PPTP/L2TP, as far as my firewall is concerned (which connects directly over Ethernet to the HOT modem), I'm using normal IP-over-Ethernet to connect to the Internet (with somewhat lower MTU). Since in my case (still

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread sara fink
. Their infrastructure might be better, but when it is untreated it is much more unreliable. See one example http://www.warning.org.il and http://www.tluna.co.il/companies/company.asp?CompanyID=128 On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I'm thinking of moving from ADSL

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: If you ISP supports it (Barak does) you can use DHCP instead of L2TP/PPTP. In this case, you router no longer needs to do anything (beyond NAT) Thanks, but maybe my question wasn't clear enough. In the past, I did pptp and NAT on my Linux box

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Eran Levy
Since you have a router, you shouldn't have any problem connecting your network. Just configure your router. I'm using HOT cables + netvision and it works fine. Eran On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Shlomo Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: If

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: As for the phone deal, it's ok, but there are better and cheaper deals depending on what call quality you want, and where you want to call. To replace a BEZEQ line, it's a good deal and does not use their infrastructure. Thanks for the

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: First of all, you do not want to use DHCP. The actual name of what is hapening is called MPLS and it to be blunt sucks. The extra overhead of a pptp or more likely l2tp tunnel is IMHO worth it, although if you are at the edge of

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 11:43:55AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: easier to manage and use /etc/hosts), I added the MAC addresses of all machines to the reserved IP address list and specified what IP to give each. This gives me 2 advantages: 1 - constant IPs on the network 2 - If needed, I can

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 11:03:25AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: As for reliability, service and speed, the best thing to do is to call HOT and ask for their business internet sales office. They offer higher speeds, better reliabilty and they will come and fix problems a lot better and a

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 09:20:58AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: Thanks, but maybe my question wasn't clear enough. In the past, I did pptp and NAT on my Linux box and shared my internet connection over the entire network. Since I bought an ADSL router from Bezek, everything is literaly plug

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 21:36 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:03 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: First of all, you do not want to use DHCP. The actual name of what is hapening is called MPLS and it to be blunt sucks. The extra overhead of a pptp or more likely l2tp

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:03 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: First of all, you do not want to use DHCP. The actual name of what is hapening is called MPLS and it to be blunt sucks. The extra overhead of a pptp or more likely l2tp tunnel is IMHO worth it, although if you are at the edge of

moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-07 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I'm thinking of moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable). I wanted to know 2 things: 1 - Since today I have an ADSL router (bought from Bezek), I no longer use pptp, NAT or any other Linux tools to connect to the Internet. The router is the only computer connected and all my Linux boxes (and my kids

Re: moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable)

2008-10-07 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 05:41 +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I'm thinking of moving from ADSL to HOT (Cable). I wanted to know 2 things: 1 - Since today I have an ADSL router (bought from Bezek), I no longer use pptp, NAT or any other Linux tools to connect to the Internet. The router