[ale] AT&T Broadbrand and Linux

[Stephen F Nicholas]

Chris,
I also tried Roadrunner.  I was using RH 6.1 and win98.  No problem
getting up up and running on either of the os's.  I worked great WHEN it was
up.  Over a two week period, it was down over 50% of the time (and so was
my neighbor using only 98.) Their tech support bit the big one (average
2 hrs to talk to a person).  Even though multiple peopl in my neighborhood
were having the same problems AT the same time (I was polling them when I 
went down, and M1 was aware of this.) MediaOne tech refused to
acknowledge this, insisting that it was a problem on my end.  They were
requiring me to take a day off from work to wait on them to show up.

Needless to say, I kept my mindspring account and dumped Mediaone.  I
might add this was ~two weeks before the name change.  As I do work for
the Board of Regents for the University System of Ga. I couldn't afford
the downtime.

If I sound bitter, I am.  I had high hopes for this endeavor.  But their
support drove me the other way.  If you have better results, please let me
know.  I'm out of the circle for adsl, might can get idsl.  

Steve

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On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Chris Woodruff wrote:

> I thought I would share my experiences with the list.  I had a cable
> modem installed from AT&T (formerly MediaOne) on Tuesday.  The tech got
> it running with Win98 and it was simple.  Loaded up a win32 firewall app
> and was enjoying speeds up to 1100k.  I was told that next month AT&T
> will be doubling the bandwidths on the network to 3000k from 1500k.  So
> then I went to work with getting Linux to work with the cable modem.  I
> was using RH 6.2 but couldn't get the system to find my new ethernet
> card.  So I downloaded the RH 7 iso's (thanks to the person at GaTech
> for the mirror), burned the CD's and reinstalled.  I was amazed to find
> that after the install everything was working correctly.  I have to
> recommend AT&T broadband.  They seem to have really corrected the issues
> that MediaOne had.
> 
> My question is now about security.  What services do I shutdown to
> secure my system to stop any havoc from the outside?  I have shutdown
> sendmail and httpd.  Does anyone know of a good security site that will
> help?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris Woodruff
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