High Speed Internet and Modems and stuff

[Joseph Kubik]

I had rogers high speed cable using the rogers provided motarola cable modem.
The setup went like this: cable guy showed up and setup the modem.
I plugged my laptop running suse linux into the modem via ethernet.
I rebooted.
I opened firefox and used the internet.

1 month later:
I had TERRIBLE problems with the modem losing signal strength.  After
10+days  of troubleshooting dealing with cable techs....
The neighbor had spliced my cable with a rat shack splitter and the
sigle was too weak.
All told, Rogers was easy to use, but not reliable enough for me.
-Joseph-

On 4/13/05, Taavi Burns <jaaaarel-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 4/13/05, Henry Spencer <henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, William O'Higgins wrote:
> > > ...A secondary machine for a firewall has many
> > > advantages, flexibility being foremost, but a hardware router is solid
> > > state (silent) and runs at 12v DC, so a lot less power than a whole
> > > computer.
> >
> > Note that there are "whole computers" with the same properties, albeit
> > not ones you'll find for $49.95 on College St. :-)
> 
> Indeed.  I have a netwinder which is doing server duty at my place.
> I'm not using it as a firewall, but I sure could (it has dual
> ethernte).  Of course, if Debian drops too much support for ARM, I
> might be screwed...
> 
> On the note of crashing routerboxen, my SMC Barricade somethingorother
> has been rock solid so long as I keep Windows away from the wireless.
> As soon as I connect a WindowsXP machine via the wireless, the router
> goes on the fritz and dies a horrible death.  Since I removed windows
> from my work laptop over a year ago, it's been almost pleasant to work
> with.  And yes, it's still a problem; my girlfriend was over the other
> day with her Win(XP/2k?) work laptop, and it sure did kill the router.
>  We got her a Linksys WRT54G the other day.  We haven't yet managed to
> get that one to work with Windows either (though my PowerBook worked
> so smoothly I wasn't sure what happened).
> 
> Note to the original poster: you can get a router without wireless,
> too.  But if you see a WRT54G on sale for cheaper, you could get that;
> it runs Linux!
> 
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