On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:50:14AM +0800, Si-Min wrote: > I never visually confirmed this myself but I heard that M1 Cable > Modem, you need to log in to a website before there is internet > connection
that is correct. after the login the connection stays on until there is no traffic for two hours. > which I personally would avoid as the login is not > something that the router would do for you after a reboot which means > a pain for the rest of the home users if there is a need to reboot > etc, further complicate matters with home linux based firewalls. if you have a linux based firewall you can fix the problem with a cron script that checks if the connection is alive every few minutes, and does a login otherwise. (the login is scriptable with wget) otherwise such a script would need to run on every machine. we went with the M1 6month contract figuring that, if it's not good or if something better comes along soon we can get out quickly and are not locked in for two years. we considered the 1year starhub offer, but we found that the additional tv and phone are of no interest to us (like it doesn't help us cut down our mobile phone bills), so m1 comes out cheaper. speed is fine. the only trouble at the moment is that for some reason, vimeo is not allowing connections. (either vimeo is blocking the m1 proxy, or the proxy itself is broken) greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix searching contract jobs: debugging, programming, training and administration -- pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org foresight developer (open-steam|caudium).org foresightlinux.org unix sysadmin iaeste.at realss.com Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.at/~mbaehr/ is.schon.org _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
