From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 18 22:46:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.halplant.com (24-168-203-47.wo.cox.rr.com [24.168.203.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD9637B401 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9D1911A7; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 01:45:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 01:45:51 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: cable modem choices Message-ID: <20011019014551.C44761@hal9000.servehttp.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Stable References: <20011019003600.N645-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011019003600.N645-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>; from behanna@zbzoom.net on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:44:59AM -0400 Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Off-topic for -stable, but attributions have lost the small details such as email addresses and this is probably of interest to a few. Dennis Mathiasen said... > Most manufacturers don't say that they work with UNIX. Well, the Windows only software that they ship probably doesn't but this is a modem which (as Chris BeHanna pointed out) has co-ax in one end and cat5 out the other. OSs don't come into the picture. > I'd appreciate any suggestions which one to buy. Thanks. As far as choosing a cable modem goes, make sure that your ISP uses DOCSIS modems, then go out and get one. Don't spend more that US$200 unless it freshens your air. Chris BeHanna said... > My ISP expects a certain MAC address. Mine too. When I went and bought my own for $120, I spent three minutes on the phone with them to give them the new MAC and get back online. > As Doug Barton mentioned, you're better off leasing one from the > cable company. The cable modem sitting beside me, for example, is > $1000 (so I was told). In that case, I have some great deals for you! > The lease rate is just built-in to my monthly access charge ...at about $20/month, I expect. Don't be surprised if this goes up sometime soon, either. It adds up quickly. > Hook up with dyndns.org and you're good to go. ...or any of the other free and at-cost Dynamic DNS services. > boot Winblows for when (s)he shows up, just to placate the cable > company, and then boot back into FreeBSD later. Or you could let the cableco know that they have customers who actually choose their platforms and don't run the infected inflated infestation which infatuates so many and is responsible for the degradation of service any time the latest stupid exploit does the rounds on your shared network. As long as you aren't asking them to support your platform (which is your job anyway), they _should_ support the service for which you are paying them real money. The DHCP instruction were good, but don't forget the (empty) /etc/dhclient.conf. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message