Re: Rogers Cable Access..a follow-up
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
> As the proud new "user" of a cable modem from Rogers cable here in
> Canada and I can say that the configuration was very easy. No need for
> dhcpd(sp?) clients at all
>
> 1. The ethernet device is a SMC Etherez 8416, which was supported by
> SMC-Ultra in the kernel. (I think other users may get a 3com...so either
> way the kernel supports them.)
>
> 2. I was assigned a static IP address, told the netmask, and gateway
> machine.
>
> I set up the ethernet device, set up the routes, then changed my current
> configs to point at the new name servers, ect.....bingo. It is very fast,
> but there aren't many people on it yet, remember this is just a test. I
> grabbed a new kernel from sunsite with netscape in windows, and watched as
> it climbed to 34k/s. I know it isn't scientific by any means, but that is
> 10X faster than anything I've achieved with my 28.8 modem.
This is not the case with the Wave in Burlington, Ontario (via CableNet
which I think leases the technology from Rogers). IP addresses are
assigned dynamically and therefore dhcpcd is needed. I installed debian
and configured the network exactly as I would do in my office in Kingston
(permanently on net, static ip) but when it asked for ip, netmask, etc. I
just took the defaults (arbitrary addresses shown for example) because I
did not know what to put there instead. I grabbed the packages necessary
to get dhcpcd going with only the five base disks installed (netstd,
linreadline2, ncurses3.0,cpp,dhcpcd) and installed them with dpkg. I then
installed the dhcpcd package and looked in /etc/dhcpc/* and low and
behold, dhcpcd had already configured everything to get ip addresses from
cgocable.net. COOL. nothing else to do. Next, I fired up dselect and used
the ftp option and I now have a complete 1.3 system.
Should some mention of this be put into the installation guide?
> Price, when it rolls out is in the $50-60/month range, I knew you'd be
> curious.....no, I don't work for them..
This may sound expensive, but when you think about it, it seems fair to
me. Consider the alternative - installation and monthly charge of a second
phone line is around CAN$20, an isp is around CAN$20 (?), and considering
there may be download charges past a certain time limit with the isp
(and/or restrictions on the time of day) and that wave downloads are much
faster than standard phone line isps, it could be a bargain. Cheers,
Colin.
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