[ale] Re: FYI - Charter Customers - Not specifically ALE related

[Michael Johnson]

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size=2>I would assume that this would only affect the internal 
modems that they try to force you to take.  Unfortunately I do not 
know whether the listed modems are internal or not.  

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The 
external modem is nothing more then an ethernet connection to your 
PC/Firewall/Cable-DSLRouter so drivers wouldn't be needed for the 
modem. And the .pdf spoke of customer support, when I ordered I had to 
convince them they had external modems to give out and that customers can do 
their own installs so I really doubt there will be much support for 
external modems anyway.
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If you 
are going into a router/firewall from the DSL, I don't see how your 
configuration will change as long as you insist on an external 
modem.
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class=755214912-08122000>Â -----Original Message-----From: 
owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of John H. 
StephensonSent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 11:15 PMTo: 
bill.cotton at myisi.com; Michael Smith; ale at ale.orgSubject: Re: [ale] 
Re: FYI - Charter Customers - Not specifically ALE 
related
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">BellSouth 
  FastAccess DSL is finally available at my location. But I am worried about the 
  warnings that Bellsouth is giving on their site that says that the DSL service 
  "may not work with Windows2000." (See the Adobe pdf file at 
  https://fast1.corp.bellsouth.net/adsl/win2000.pdf and, please, no flames for 
  my using Windows!!!! :)I am currently running a TCP/IP LAN in my home 
  consisting of:1 Red Hat 7 Linux server1 Windows 2000 workstation1 
  Windows 2000 laptop1 Windows 98 workstationThis network is set-up 
  thusly:a Charter Cable COM21 Cable Modem (static IP) > a Watchguard 
  Technologies SOHO IP address sharing router/firewall > HP Procurve 10/100 
  Hub > everything elseEverything is running fine now (when Charter 
  is up and running)!My questions (maybe dumb)...Why does the 
  DSL Modem care what OS is running on any of the systems in the 
  LAN? Can I use the DSL service the same way that I am using 
  Charter?Will the Linux server be "supported" by the DSL 
  service?Should I bother messing with the setup that is generally 
  working (even though Charter's service is marginal with a lot of 
  outages)?Thanks, guys.JohnAt 10:44 AM 12/7/2000, 
  bill.cotton at myisi.com wrote:
  Hey 
    Mikey! I just ordered 416/416 
    SDSL from Megapath a few days ago.  Megapath is one of the top rated 
    DSL providers listed on DSLR (dslreports.com).  I have a killer idea 
    for sharing the cost and bandwidth with my neighbors.  I currently have 
    three static IP address with Charter.  I will be curious to see how 
    they deal with me.  By the way, where did you get this info?  I 
    never know what's going on with Charter.  The last couple of days I 
    have had horrible cable modem service.  Do you have a web site at your 
    house?  I have a demo site, but the folks in Switzerland always 
    complain about it timing out.  I was think I would have them try 
    changing some of their TCP registry setting to allow for my extremely slow 
    upload speed. B
    ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Michael Smith 
      To: 'ale at ale.org' 
      Cc: Bill Cotton 
      (E-mail) Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 3:01 
      PMSubject: FYI - Charter Customers - Not specifically ALE 
      relatedHere's an FYI for those of you using the Charter Cable 
      Modem serviceand have COM 21 modems.  I just talked to someone at 
      Charter Communicationsand found out that they are taking all the COM 
      21 modems out of service.They are also moving to DHCP from static 
      IP's(major bummer).  They will bereplacing all the COM 21 modems 
      with Surfboard modems within the next coupleoff months.  The 
      major bummer is that they will still offer static IP's butat 
      $150.  I guess I might start looking at DSL again.  The static 
      IP was theonly thing keeping me on cable anyways.....Michael 
      A. SmithSenior Software 
Developer