From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 2 11: 1:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F05F37B416 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 11:01:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g42I1k924398; Thu, 2 May 2002 11:01:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:01:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cable Modems In-Reply-To: <200205020205.g4225B4J015334@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <20020502110039.J23464-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> X-All-Your-Base: are belong to us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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.) Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message