[ale] Re: FYI - Charter Customers - Not specifically ALE related

[John H. Stephenson]

BellSouth FastAccess DSL is finally available at my location. But I am
worried about the warnings that Bellsouth is giving on their site that
says that the DSL service "may not work with Windows2000." (See
the Adobe pdf file at https://fast1.corp.bellsouth.net/adsl/win2000.pdf
and, please, no flames for my using Windows!!!! :)

I am currently running a TCP/IP LAN in my home consisting of:
1 Red Hat 7 Linux server
1 Windows 2000 workstation
1 Windows 2000 laptop
1 Windows 98 workstation

This network is set-up thusly:
a Charter Cable COM21 Cable Modem (static IP) > a Watchguard
Technologies SOHO IP address sharing router/firewall > HP Procurve
10/100 Hub > everything else

Everything is running fine now (when Charter is up and running)!

My questions (maybe dumb)...

Why does the DSL Modem care what OS is running on any of the systems in
the LAN?
 
Can I use the DSL service the same way that I am using Charter?

Will the Linux server be "supported" by the DSL service?

Should I bother messing with the setup that is generally working (even
though Charter's service is marginal with a lot of outages)?

Thanks, guys.

John

At 10:44 AM 12/7/2000, bill.cotton at myisi.com wrote:
Hey
Mikey!
 
I just ordered 416/416 SDSL from Megapath a few
days ago.  Megapath is one of the top rated DSL providers listed on
DSLR (dslreports.com).  I have a killer idea for sharing the cost
and bandwidth with my neighbors.  I currently have three static IP
address with Charter.  I will be curious to see how they deal with
me.  By the way, where did you get this info?  I never know
what's going on with Charter.  The last couple of days I have had
horrible cable modem service.  Do you have a web site at your
house?  I have a demo site, but the folks in Switzerland always
complain about it timing out.  I was think I would have them try
changing some of their TCP registry setting to allow for my extremely
slow upload speed.
 
B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Michael Smith

To: 'ale at ale.org' 
Cc: Bill Cotton (E-mail) 
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 3:01 PM
Subject: FYI - Charter Customers - Not specifically ALE related

Here's an FYI for those of you using the Charter Cable Modem service
and have COM 21 modems.  I just talked to someone at Charter Communications
and found out that they are taking all the COM 21 modems out of service.
They are also moving to DHCP from static IP's(major bummer).  They will be
replacing all the COM 21 modems with Surfboard modems within the next couple
off months.  The major bummer is that they will still offer static IP's but
at $150.  I guess I might start looking at DSL again.  The static IP was the
only thing keeping me on cable anyways.....

Michael A. Smith
Senior Software Developer