[ale] mediaOne modem

[Jeff Hubbs]

Jim -

I admire your presence of mind!  You created your own real-life sitcom
scene!

Actually, it speaks to an interesting inversion of knowledge - you knew far
more about the service being provided than the "last-mile" service provider.


- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Popovitch [mailto:jimpop at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 10:24 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] mediaOne modem
> 
> 
> All these emails for/against MediaOne remind me about back 
> when I first
> got my cable modem the M1 guy (still we behind the ears) 
> asked me for a
> preferred username.  I said 'root' and he quickly called it in to the
> provisioning center.  Less a minute passed before his PCS 
> phone beeped,
> to his astonishment (and his only) 'root' was already taken.  I paused
> and thought of 'daemon', 'lp', and 'sys', but decided to opt for a
> quicker install.  :)  Oh those Windows only folks are fun.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> --- Jason Lynn <jason_lynn_ at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Sage,
> > 
> > I also live in Duluth and I just got MediaOne (now ATT, but I still
> > have a 
> > mediaone.net email addie) cable modem just last week.  I absolutely
> > LOVE 
> > it... that may be because I have been using 56k dialup for so long
> > though...
> > 
> > The guy came to install it (I provided the NIC card), it took about
> > an hour. 
> >   As soon as he left, I rebooted into my Linux partition 
> and set eth0
> > to 
> > DHCP, restarted the network, and everything worked perfect.  I have
> > since 
> > yanked that NIC out and made a gateway / firewall box that 
> took SOME 
> > tweaking, but is seemingly working fine now.  Well, fine enough to
> > get 
> > hacked by some guy in an internet cafe in Moldova last night
> > (thankfully he 
> > wasn't good at covering his tracks!).  Seems I need to 
> learn to patch
> > up my 
> > Distribution a little better!
> > 
> > If you have any questions, feel free to email me...
> > 
> > Jason
> > 
> > 
> > >From: Sage <morrigu_irm at springmail.com>
> > >Reply-To: morrigu_irm at springmail.com
> > >To: ale at ale.org
> > >Subject: [ale] mediaOne modem
> > >Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 13:36:16 -0400
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> > >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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