As to thru put I am on Turner, 40 to 500 K with Windows 98
Linux well how about 2 meg-a-bit, I was a beta tester on it, performance seems
to be dropping as more stations come on line.
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Andrew Chen wrote:
> Denis:
>
> The service I use, TCI@Home (AT&T@Home, or whatever it's called now) just
> provides you with a static IP, a cable modem, a ethernet card, and they
> configure your Windows networking to use the appropriate values for the
> gateway, DNS, and IP.
>
> What I did was have a Windows box and had them do the alterations. I then
> copied down all the values and then formatted the hard drive <insert evil
> laugh here>, added a second ethernet card and started providing access to
> all the other computers in the apartment through IP-masq.
>
> All in all, very simple, no surprises. They'll even give you a 3Com
> Etherlink III card. The bottom line is that it's all very
> straightforward... well, at least here in Seattle, WA.
>
> The catch is that from what I've heard, cable service varies wildly from
> one region to another. The service I'm telling you about is pretty good,
> but the provider in your region could also provide the shottiest service
> in the US, so you never know. You should probably share what region you're
> from so that if people in your area have some complaining to do, you'll
> hear it.
>
> Here are my questions though:
>
> 1) Why don't cable companies run OS-fingerprint utilities to keep people
> from running Linux?
>
> 2) Do they care about whether or not you are running a IP-masq (or
> equivalent) service?
>
> 3) Here in Seattle, we have a dumb arbitrary 256k up/down limit-- does
> anyone have service that's just stunning in terms of performance?
>
> 4) Why is it that Linux is not supported? It seems that most people that
> would be interested in broadband would be into it or some other *nix OS.
>
> 5) Does @HOME use UNIX for their internal stuff :)
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Denis Voitenko wrote:
>
> > I am about to get a cable modem (this Friday). So I was wondering what
> > it takes to get on up and running under Linux. Of couse @HOME does not
> > support Linux so I can not ask them about it.
> >
> > I am quite familiar with Linux networking on LAN and WAN scales but I
> > thought I'd rather learn about surprises beforehand. Any weirdness I
> > should expect?
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