On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 08:19 -0700, JD wrote: > Obviously you have not used at&t uverse service :) No... Wrong country > Without THEIR modem nothing works. Uverse is a > package: TV, Internet, Phone services. Decryption > of the TV signal occurs in the modem, and is then > sent out the same cable on a different frequency, > which is then picked up by each TV's at&t' STB. > The modem just has piggybacked into it the WIFI > and ethernet card. Sounds like you're stuck, then. I've never been keen on these bundled things, as they tend to be jack of all trades, master of none. And you end up putting up with something that's bad, or separately handling it, with the multi-device sitting there to taunt you that you still need several devices, or services, instead of the all-in-one. Trying to route through some things just plain sucks. Back in 1998, I dabbled with using a Windows box as the NAT box between dial-up and the LAN. It was dreadful. Apart from the usual crashes, it was slow, and often needed restarting. Changing over to using a Linux computer as the NAT device made a remarkable difference. Things were reliable, and traffic was surprisingly much faster. You get the same with some hardware. Some modem/router devices are just awful. Sometimes they can be improved by upgrading their firmware, and sometimes going back to a prior version improves things. About all you can do is keep hassling your service provider about this, letting them know that it's got worse, maybe you'll get a different help desk staff member one day who can actually change something to the better. Their all-in-one service is, most likely, aimed at the average computer illiterate person who has one or two computers, doesn't really do anything special with them, is used to general Windows crappiness, and will also put up with the same crappiness in other gear, because they don't know any better. Technology, on a whole, seems to be going in that direction. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
