Here's something I wrote to the Israel Mac user's list about it cable modems.
I'll make changes where needed: ----- Forwarded message from "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:57:43 +0200 > From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [isramac] connecting with a cable modem > There is a hidden catch with cable modems in Israel. Since HOT and BEZEQ > are not legally permitted to be ISPs, they cannot offer you a connection > to the Internet. Therefore unless you use MPLS, which creates a VPN (aka > tunnel) inside HOT's network for you, you have to use a VPN/tunnel > to connect to the Internet. > > That's what you've been doing using L2TP on your PC. L2TP is a tunneling > protcol championed by Microsoft. It's not very good, but it works, > and the hardware at the ISP's end is a lot cheaper than any other. > > The hidden gotcha with cable modems is how they allocate connections > to the ISP. When your computer connects to HOT's network, it is > assigned an IP address in a local network. That local network has a > gateway to HOT's main network and via that gateway you connect to > a tunneling/VPN gateway which connects you to the outside world. > > The problem is that software designed for the U.S. assumes the gateway > out of the LAN is the same as the tunneling gateway. That's why routers > from the U.S. won't work here using cable modems without MPLS (which > is now almost impossible to get). > > I don't know if MacOS supports L2TP off the top of my head, and I'm > not near a Mac to check it out. Note MacOS X and Linux both support L2TP. I have an old connection with Netvision, from before L2TP was popular and I use pptp. > > A friend of mine has a Mac and he uses 013 and has had problems which > they fixed for him, knowing well he had a Mac. Netvision also supports > Macs. > > Since he uses an aDSL line and OS9 (no tunneling support), he got a router > from BEZEQ and uses that to connect to his ISP. > > At this point you can buy a cheap combination router/4 port hub/WiFi access > point for around 230 NIS at Office Depot. > > I suggest you get one, or spend the extra money and get a "name brand". ----- End forwarded message ----- Also note that since I wrote the reply to the original message at around 7:30 am, my cable connection was down twice. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
