If you call their business services branch at 615-2000, you can arrange a cable account that's straight LAN plugin with a static IP, more or less what I have now. It's $59.95 a month, which is a little steep, but it avoids the whole "managed high speed interenet service" crapola.
A friend of mine ran that conversion and found that the whole cox.net network was down at the time, according to their phone support. He had to revert to his @home settings to get back on the net. The cd also installed a rather busy monitoring software that (supposedly) watches the availability of the mail server, the web proxy, etc. I don't really need a daemon running on my windows desktop to know if I can get my mail, though. -- -j On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ricky Salmon wrote: > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:50:43 -0800 > From: Ricky Salmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [brluglist] Cox Cable > > Anyone here do the conversion from the @Home service to Cox? From what I > understand it's just a switch from static IP's to DHCP. :( > > You know I poped that CD in my firewall, mounted it, and it spit it out > becuase it contained IE... > > I also see that it installs a custom version of WinVNC through the process > for troubleshooting... Kinda disturbing to me, though I do see it's > advantages... > > Ricky > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
