Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:40:17 -0800 From: "Robert Faulds" <frf@energyinteractive.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Src code for @Home NIC Card for Slaming into UNIX - Re: (Form posted from Mozilla (KMM25773C0KM)) Message-ID: <36E95F91.5AA0DEFE@energyinteractive.com> References: <199903120227.SAA22664@hpfsvr02.cup.hp.com>
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TCI's tech gave me a 3C900B. No problems. Tci uses DHCP, but it uses a unique hostname (installing their software changed my hostname to something like B9182734-B) to get a preassigned IP address. This address was printed, along with default route, on the top of the work order. One thing that was missing were name servers. The biggest "suprise" was when running FreeBSD, I was getting close to 2Mbs downstream, and 512Kbs upstream. When I booted NT, It was pretty close to 512Kbs both directions. At first I laughed and blamed it on Windoze, but upon closer inspection I found that installing the @home software set a bunch of NT registry setting to limit my bandwidth. Client-side throttling. I reinstalled windows (like I do every week), didn't install their software, and 'bingo' 1.5Mbs downstream. Of course, now I do not have access to an @home email address, but heh, like I don't have enough already. I still use thier http cache although it took a little work to find. Basically, I am very happy with the service, but beware. -- frf@energyinteractive.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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