Re: [TCLUG:1152] cable modems from mediaone

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

i'm not sure what your problems are.. but if you have the external cable box..
it's no problem to hook up a linux box.. all you need is dhcpcd to get the IP
address.. i know someone who uses it with his ip_masq router no problem

On 14-Sep-98 Steve Siegfried wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I've had it since Friday.  If you're an AOL customer, you can
> connect to AOL via the cable modem (using a TCP/IP connection).  My
> wife's eyes bugged out at how fast the three boxes they throw up for
> "connecting" went by.  The rest of AOL was equally fast.
> 
> The MediaOne Express service works pretty well with W95.  But _NOT_ with
> Linux.  Supposedly the cable-modem faq for Linux can get you through
> hooking up a Linux box to their service, but I've yet to get that to
> work.
> 
> I have no knowledge about how the service works with a Mac.
> 
> MediaOne's cable modem service in the TC is commonly called "one-way",
> in that bits come _in_ from the cable and out go _out_ via a V34 modem
> built into the cable-modem.   Speed appears consistently to be 30-50
> times faster than a modem for downloading.  Uploading is what you see
> with a modem (because it _is_ a modem).
> 
> Cost is $49/month ($39 if you already have MediaOne's cable TV service).
> They own the modem, so the only up-front costs is the cost associated
> with getting the cable run to your 'puter (possibly from the street if
> you don't already have cable).
> 
> So the upside is: it's _fast_ downloading and cheaper then 128KB ISDN.
> 
> Downsides are as follows:
> 
>       -Only W95, W98, NT and Mac are supported.  Linux users <sigh>
>        are out of luck (or more properly, on their own.. there's a FAQ
>        in most Linux distributions for cable-modems).
> 
>       -It's only fast in one direction.  Upload speed is at V.34 modem
>        speeds (ie: 33.6 _BITS_ per second, roughly 1/30'th of download
>        speed).  Because of what I do for a living (I'm a Unix jock
>        working out of a home office), upload speed is important to me.
>        It'll be <sigh> at least 6-18 months before "two way" service
>        is available area wide.  I'd really like to personally thank
>        whomever made _that_ decision!
> 
>       -You need netscape just to wake-up/shut-down the modem and the
>        connection hand-shake is _very_ slow (around 30 seconds, more
>        if you count loading netscape from disk).
> 
>       -Their network seems slow to respond.  Ping times to the server
>        from my regular ISP are in the 200ms range.  Ping times from my
>        PC to the cable-modem server, while faster, vary widely..
>        almost like I have trouble getting the server's attention.
> 
>       -Their telephone order people are pretty clue impaired.  It took
>        over an hour and a half just to get the service ordered over the
>        phone...  and I already had MediaOne cable for TV.  On the up
>        side, the installation people were very fast and knowledgeable,
>        installing the service in less time than it took just to order
>        it over the phone.
> 
>       -DNS Name service is unreliable outside of office hours, making
>        web browsing a hit or miss deal late at night.
> 
>       -News goes back 2 days or less.
> 
>       -Technical support is almost nonexistant.
> 
> Given some of the constraints that MediaOne is putting on their users
> (no static IP available, they don't want you connecting your puter to
> both their service and a local network, poor new server article
> retention, et al), I'm probably gonna drop it and go with ISDN until I
> can get DSL.
> 
> In the end DSL (if you can get it) is probably faster, cheaper and more
> reliable.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
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> UserCx@aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, 
>> Is there anybody here who is using this  service ?
>> I do not have cable and so it will
>> cost me ~ $49.00 per month and an $99.00 installation fee. 
>> 
>> I am not sure if it is as good as it sounds. 
>> 
>> I couldnot get one thing answered which is if it was possible for me
>> to host a web server from home and be permanently connected to the
>> net which US West claims is possible with their ADSL.
>> 
>> But ADSL is  more expensive ~$400 of installation charges.
>> 
>> If you are interested on how to get it to work with Linux there is a 
>> HOW-TO at:
>> http://velociraptor.mni.fh-giessen.de/ldp/mini/Cable-Modem.html
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> sandipan
>> 
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Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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