Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 21:05:11 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cable Modems Message-ID: <200205020205.g4225B4J015334@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> of "Wed, 01 May 2002 16:04:03 PDT." <20020501160240.B81172-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White writes: > > Based on the suck factor of the Moto/GI DCTs, I would stay far, far away > from those. :) What suck factor? A Motorola Surfboard 4100 (?) was installed in a distant office at work last week. I had problems with the cable company's GUI Web browser only registration process as I didn't bother to put X on the FreeBSD firewall and couldn't figure it out in Lynx. I originally had an RCA cable modem running 100baseT. Changed cable companies and was issued a 3-Com shark fin which lasted 4 days before it and $3,000 of my toys got cooked by lightning. Its replacement is doing well the past year and I'm not complaining much about the $9/mo rental as me and my insurance company are still way ahead of the game as purchase was $250 back then. But with prices dipping to $50-$75 range, I don't have to avoid lightning very long to break even. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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