Just anecdotal, but a co-worker who is a sysadmin for linux, solaris, hp-ux, aix, and irix boxen finally gave up on cable due to an apparent dhcp incompatibility with anything other than billdows.
He's happy with DSL... That's in Corvallis though, don't know if comcast is consistent between towns yet. -J ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 18:29:11 -0700 >Exactly my sentiments, Joseph -- although many others note that "these >things tend to break". Hmmm... I've been sitting on my DSL for 2 years >now, and had only ever reset my DSL modem once, in the beginning. I >have it on a UPS, and so it has managed to keep uptime over all of the >local brownouts and minor blackouts during its active lifetime. >I've also seen such deals, which would beat out the comcast unit rental >inside of a year's time, and so would prefer to spend my money on my own >device, which I can happily destroy following its eventual breakdown = ) >Is anyone familiar with any particular compatibility issues? ie, do I >need to make sure the model supports some specific protocols or is a >cable modem a cable modem, all the same, these days? > >thanks for all the informative responses, folks! > > Ben B > > >On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:59:03 -0700 >"Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >| > > I'll be switching at the end of this month, from DSL. Thanks! >| > > >| > > ciao, >| > > >| > > Ben B >| > ... >| Actually, I've seen the modems as cheap as $30, shipped. If they work >| with comcast, they're going to beat the crap out of leasing from >| Comcast. >_______________________________________________ >EuG-LUG mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
