Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

[Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Michael Patterson wrote:

> Now I find that the company is going under. enter the cablemodem. I have
> cablemodem service with Adelphia cable. ( @home). it works beautifully when
> I hook up a single windows machine to it, using DHCP.

You either need to get your DHCP client to pass a hostname on to the
DHCP server (that c*-? number they give you), or you need to call them
up and ask for your IP settings (or check winipcfg in Windows).

@Home technical support will probably give you a brief disclaimer along
the lines of "The most support you'll get with this OS is your static
settings, and we reserve the right to change your IP without notice."
The nice thing is this IP nearly never changes.  The only reason I've
changed IPs is because I've moved.  Everything changes with the peon
that answers the phone at your local cable company though...the trick is
to get escallated.

Or you can get it from Windows in winipcfg.

-- 
Baloo