On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: > If you ISP supports it (Barak does) you can use DHCP instead of > L2TP/PPTP. > In this case, you router no longer needs to do anything (beyond NAT) Thanks, but maybe my question wasn't clear enough. In the past, I did pptp and NAT on my Linux box and shared my internet connection over the entire network. Since I bought an ADSL router from Bezek, everything is literaly "plug and play" on all Linux and Windows machines. I have the router set up to provide internal IP addresses to each machine and absolutely no set is required when adding or upgrading a machine. It's so "easy" that I don't want to go back to the old way (administering the pptp and NAT on my machine). So my question is really, can I do the same with cable? Of course, I know I'd need to get a cable modem from HOT, but would it just plug into the router or what? Of course, the ADSL component of the router would be useless, but I'm assuming (and here I may be wrong) that I could still use the same router after plugging the cable modem into it.
> > 2 - Is cable as reliable as ADSL - speed, disconnects, etc? On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: > In my experience - far more reliable. (But it may depend on the state of > your local HOT infrastructure) > My IP was last changed ~4 months ago. On Wednesday 08 October 2008, sara fink wrote: > Don't do the mistake to move to Hot. It will be the mistake of your life. > Lots of disconnections, old modems, bad service, over charging,waiting on > the phone line at least 20 min). WOW - there couldn't be more conflicting opinions. Did one of the two (Gilboa and Sara) have unusually good or bad luck? Can anyone else give an opinion? Since this may be a bit OT, you can answer directly to me, instead of to the list. If it's of interest, I'll try to summarize the opinions I get. -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.9.9 (KDE 3.5.9) on LINUX Mandriva 2008.1 ================================================================= 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]
