[ale] mediaOne modem

[Sage]

Hey, thanks for your opinion, we will take it under consideration; I do have one question, however, where are you located, and is it possible that has something to do with your f&!#*%d-up service?


Sage


On Tue, 08 May 2001 14:14:41 -0400 Leonard Thornton <Leonard at Intelis-inc.net> wrote:

I have MediaOne (AT&T Broadband) and it SUCKS.  The longest it has been up 
since they set me up on March 1 is 4 days.  I have been down for as long as 
36 hours at a time.  It usually never stays up longer than 2 hours at a 
time being dying.  I have spent upwards of 4 hours on hold with their 
"Customer Service" group who couldn't spell broadband if it weren't for the 
script in their hand.  If you can get Bellsouth DSL, RUN don't walk away 
from MediaOne.

As to the setup, I have a Pentium 225 running Redhat 7.0 acting as my 
gateway / firewall with two (2) 3Com 3c509 adapters.  The first is setup 
for DHCP and connected to MediaOne while the other is assigned a private IP 
address on my home network.  The setup is simple and straightforward.  The 
catch is when your provider comes to set it up, have your network adapter 
in a WinBLOWs machine and write down the MAC address.  After they setup, 
you can move the adapter to your Linux gateway box OR just tell the adapter 
in your gateway box to use the MAC address of the card used to setup your 
connection.

If you need more specifics, don;t hesitate to ask.


At 01:36 PM 5/8/2001 -0400, you wrote:

>We are about to go with MediaOne Broadband. Unfortunately, NOTHING decent 
>is available (ie, Telocity, Speakeasy) in Duluth, so we're stuck with that 
>or Bell South.
>
>Question; This docsis modem they use; anyone had any experience, good or 
>bad with it? We use Slackware and RedHat, and, of course, nobody supplying 
>fast Internet access out here supports Linux.
>
>Anything we ought to know?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Sage
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The difficult while you wait.....the impossible overnight.

Leonard Thornton
Intelis, Inc.
5960 Crooked Creek Rd
Suite 30
Norcross, GA  30092

Office: 770.825.0032
Fax:            770.825.0028
Cellular:       404.583.5402
Pager:          888.785.9188
Email:          Leonard at Intelis-Inc.net

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