Another thing with Road Runner (Time Warner) is that their email servers are junk. Sometimes it takes me as long as 10 minutes to receive 40-50 emails. Other times it only takes seconds. Mike Patchen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Zbikowski (Zibby)" <andyzib at ringworld.org> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 10:34 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Cable modems > None of the cable providers is going to hassle you as long as you can answer > their questions. With MediaOne, you'll need to know the MAC address of the > ethernet card you intend to use (mutiple MAC addresses if you're paying $10 > more for 3 ips.) > > Time Warner doesn't care. The only MAC address they care about is the one of > belonging to the cable modem they give you. From there, you can get up to 5 > ips. (Neener neener neener you AT&T folks.) Down side with time warner is > that their dhcp service has proven to be rather unstable. Unstable to the > point where we gave up on public IPs all togher and went back to the > traditional NAT box. (Well, it's OpenBSD instead of Linux...) > > Our installer came with a questionaire about system specs. Our answers went > something like this: > processor: semi-fast > ram: enough > hard drive space: always in need of more. > nic: lots of them. > > With AT&T you get a rather blinky UFO like cable modem thing from 3com. We > got a boring Toshiba from Time Warner, it hides nicely in the entertainment > center. > > -- > | Andrew S. Zbikowski | Home: 763.591.0977 | > | http://www.ringworld.org | Work: 763.428.9119 | > | http://www.itouthouse.com | PCS: 612.306.6055 | > | This message is protected by double ROT13 | > | encryption. Any attempt to circumvent the | > | digital protection is banned by the DMCA. |