Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-25 Thread Carey Evans
Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They explicitly disallow all servers of ANY kind. No open ports, except maybe identd. A friend of mine was running one just fine under linux, with dhcp and all, but got his account terminated for having sendmail up :) This is rather off-topic, but

Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Oki, I'm leaving for Vancouver next Friday (3/7). I'll be stopping by London over the weekend and leave Sunday around 1800. I don't know when I'll be back online, I'll get 'Net access through 'Rogers wave'... xDSL, jummy :) Any developer in London who like to go out for a beer (or five :) on

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 24 Jun 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: : Oki, I'm leaving for Vancouver next Friday (3/7). I'll be stopping by London : over the weekend and leave Sunday around 1800. I don't know when I'll be : back online, I'll get 'Net access through 'Rogers wave'... xDSL, jummy :) Wildly off topic ...

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 24 Jun 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: : Oki, I'm leaving for Vancouver next Friday (3/7). I'll be stopping by London : over the weekend and leave Sunday around 1800. I don't know when I'll be : back online, I'll get 'Net access through 'Rogers

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: Wildly off topic ... isn't The Wave cable modem access? Hmmm... You really got me there... I have been lead to beleve it's xDSL, but I'm not sure... Anyone? It's cable modem, and it's REALLY fast (about 400kbits/sec, full

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 01:31:48PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: It's cable modem, and it's REALLY fast (about 400kbits/sec, full time connection for somthing like $60 Canadian/month). I hate you :) I hate you all :)). For

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote: : On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: : : Wildly off topic ... isn't The Wave cable modem access? : : Hmmm... You really got me there... I have been lead to beleve it's xDSL, : but I'm not sure... Anyone? : : It's

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DSL stands for Digital Subscriber Loop. I knew that... :) different flavors of DSL (like HDSL, ADSL ...) so the phone companies talk about xDSL :) That to... I didn't know much, but atleast I knew that... :) One major limitation of DSL is that you

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
One major limitation of DSL is that you must be less than 19000 feet from a CO (round trip). I didn't know that... 19Kfeet... Let's see... That's about 633 meters... Not much... No, 19000 ft = 5791.2 m. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hate you :) I hate you all :)). For $60 Canadian, you would neither get a cable nor a modem and *never ever* get a full time connection here in Germany. While we're off topic, I just made a truly aggravating discovery, and I wanted to see if

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
The problem with roadrunner is this: They explicitly disallow all servers of ANY kind. No open ports, except maybe identd. A friend of mine was running one just fine under linux, with dhcp and all, but got his account terminated for having sendmail up :) So be careful. Dan -- To

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They explicitly disallow all servers of ANY kind. No open ports, except maybe identd. Hmm, I wonder if that's a local or a global restriction. I haven't heard anything about that yet here. A friend of mine was running one just fine under linux, with

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
Rob Browning writes: Now my question, since I don't know too much about cable modems, is what's the chance that I could get one of these (by letting them install it for Win95 on a useless partition) and then set it up under Debian? I know they're using Motorola cable modems that connect to

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 24 Jun 1998, Rob Browning wrote: [ snip ] : IP whenever you initially fire up your computer and click their start : button, but that's the extent of my knowledge. Mainly I don't know : if they've got some proprietary way to configure the connection. I believe RoadRunner uses a proprietary