[ale] Question about cable modem connections

[Stephen Benjamin]

I've never had any cable guy bring a laptop with him....

but comcast CAN do installs with only a linux box present, they just have to
call in the activation instead of using their junky software CD.


On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK. I reread (twice) the original post. wife will NOT have to config a
> router. It is a NEW cable modem installation. As long as it is ONSITE
> before the cable installer starts, they will (usually) connect it up as
> the first device to be authorized by the installation process. The
> Linksys routers default to a working out of the box mode for just this
> purpose. Now the cable person can plug in the modem, plug in the router,
> plug in his laptop into the router and verify connection. Then wife's
> laptop will JustWork(tm) with no config on her part.
>
> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 08:32 -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > Jim Kinney wrote:
> > > All the cable modem crap I've dealt with require a registered MAC
> > > address. So the installer sets up the box i.e. - plugs it in) and then
> > > phones in to have the new device "approved" witht he MAC address of
> > > the WINDOWS PC plugged into it. The modem does not provide dhcp. The
> > > upstream cable service provides it.
> > >
> > >  I would recommend providing a broadband router of some sort (wireless
> > > optional) as the WAN side by default is looking for dhcp service.
> > >
> > I'd never be able to get her to install and configure a router.  Surely
> > I can just furnish her with the mac address if the ethernet card in the
> > laptop, can't I?  I don't think there will ever be a time that more than
> > that one computer is connected in that home, unless I'm there.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim.
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