My Fellow PowerBook-philes and Tim,
Cable Modems would be nice if only we did not have one of the worst
iterations of the Comcast Empire where I live. It was formerly known as
MediaOne, then later as AT&T Cable and Broadband. MediaOne has the
dubioius distinction of having the poorest customer service rating of
any cable company ever. Ever. It was fantastic. Man I still shudder
about MediaOne.
Regardless, I will be moving to Birmingham, AL which only has Charter I
understand. I had to deal with them in Athens, GA. They are not as
technically savvy as Comcast, nor do they know how to run networks in
general, plus they do not have as many nifty features, but goodness ...
it's like the difference between Sun and Microsoft in cultures. Sure,
I'd prefer a Linux or Apple kind of culture, but at least it isn't an
uncaring empire.
On an aside: Apparently Paul Allen does have a stake in Charter. Eh.
Still, business lines are expensive so I won't be able to run any nifty
home-made servers from leftover computers running everything from
NetBSD, OS 8.5 to RedHat 9. I plan on getting the DreamCast an Ethernet
adapter and turning it into something .... That oughta be funny. If my
Mac SE had a larger hard drive I might even network it.... (G)
Good luck with y'alls DSL and/or Cable Modems .... and watch out for the
lightning! :-)
Sincerely,
Pacer the Loon
Tim Collier wrote:
I live in South Florida and we have thunderstorms everyday especially
in the Summer. I used to have BellSouth DSL and had a similar
experience. I use a cable modem now. No more problems.
Tim
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