One little note on this whole cable modem/2300c issue:

Here's a way to test if the cable modem really is the bottleneck or not.

If you have another machine,  (I'm assuming PowerMac with ethernet), try
running something like NetPresenz (a shareware ftp/http server) on it, and
connect them together via ethernet.  Setup an html page with a download link
on it.  (The full download of Netscape includes "composer" which should make
this easy.)  Then, run your usual browser on the 2300, and point it to this
other machine.  Download, and look at the transfer rate you're getting.

If it's >20 KB/s, then you know that the bottleneck is occuring in the cable
modem, and if it's not, then you know that the cable modem is overkill for
the 2300c.

   -Nathan
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