I wouldnt tell them you got a router if I were you. my cable provider wanted $10 per month if I wanted a router. On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:37:06AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > I don't know of anybody who isn't in some kind of fight with verizon in > this area who uses or has used verizon dsl. The lady who works across the > hall from me had a fight with them too and she's got perfectly good eye > sight. That having been said, your cable provider may use pppoe or dhcp, > best to ask and find out. You also want to go and buy a router for your > modem and tell the cable company you have a router hooked up since it's a > different kind of signal that has to be sent to your modem to get it > started with a router. Right now and for the past year and a little more > I've been on a 14.4 modem. The reason is I didn't purchase and get a > router installed. You might ask the cable company if the technician can > install the router for you too, some of them can. The technicians gmp > cable employs don't officially support Linux but when they get out to a > place where Linux is used it's like they turned into Willy Wonka in the > chocolate factory. Why did the lack of a router make use of a dialup > connection necessary, the cable account and my computer got hacked. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
