Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 18:28:14 -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: <200205022328.g42NSE4I021153@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> of "Thu, 02 May 2002 11:01:46 PDT." <20020502110039.J23464-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White writes: > On Wed, 1 May 2002, David Kelly wrote: > > > 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 said *based* on the suck factor of the DCTs, which are apparently made > by a different division. (Digital cable is fscking slow; allocating 8% of > a slow CPU for a GUI was a bad idea.) I missed the reference that a DCT was a Digital Cable Terminal (?) and was thinking DCT was a model of cable modem. Or have I missed it yet again? -- 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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