Re: Solved Re: Followup -- Re: Pismo, cable, router...

2002-09-18 Thread Justin C
> it is dependent on other users..cable shares bandwidth on the lines, as opposed to DSL which shares it at the switching station. myself, im fortunate enough to live in what was a test market for roadrunner - we began having cable internet in my city about 6-7-8 years ago.during that time

Re: Solved Re: Followup -- Re: Pismo, cable, router...

2002-09-18 Thread Justin C
thanks for the heads up, im going to see what i can do..i live near a community college, and a university...and i know people who go to both, if im not able to buy without an id :) Thanks for the tip, im looking to get a router for my ibook's airport card. On Wednesday, September 18,

Re: Solved Re: Followup -- Re: Pismo, cable, router...

2002-09-18 Thread Joel Furtek
Mike, Thank you for the kind words. Adelphia is not among my favorite companies, but quite unfortunately several years back the city of Charlottesville made an exclusive (!) deal with them to provide cable access in the city. So they're the only game in town. My employer pays for the Powerl

Re: Solved Re: Followup -- Re: Pismo, cable, router...

2002-09-18 Thread K
Glad to hear your problem is solved...I HAD adelphia for 5 days and dropped it...Running an imac se 400 (graphite) and a pismo..My dialup is a consistent 52-54k connection and the absolute best that I could get w/adelphia was about 85-95k in the early am or mid-day..it dropped as low as 80k in the

Solved Re: Followup -- Re: Pismo, cable, router...

2002-09-18 Thread Joel Furtek
Hello once again, Thank you to all for the advice. I simply have the router spoofing my mac's MAC address and I'm off and running. Now, finally, my Pismo is unshackled! For those of you who have .edu connections, or are even near a University, I picked up this router for $50 at our student bo

Followup -- Re: Pismo, cable, router...

2002-09-18 Thread Joel Furtek
Thank you to all who have responded. Apparently the golden hour to call Adelphia support is 5:35 EDT, because I got a rep in about 60 seconds. But she said that their system no longer locks into the MAC address, that moving the modem from computer to computer in a household would make no dif