On Thursday, Aug 26, 2004, at 00:29 US/Central, trisha wrote:
Anyone here using charter internet with their linux computer?
Sure am. And a few others on this list are, too. Physically, your setup should look something like this:
{internet}--{cable modem}--{computer}The computer connects to the modem via DHCP which automatically assigns you an IP address. However, Charter needs to "activate" your account. They either need to tell you how to activate your account or they have to activate your account for you. I had the Charter guy active my account when he was at my house installing the cable setup. Basically, the activation process involves opening up a web browser (I had him use FireFox), visit some super-secret Charter site, type in a bunch of information about me (name, address, account number, yada, yada, yada), and it then "just worked." Just be aware that it looks as though the activation process records your MAC address on your ethernet card.
Once you are activated, you're good to go. Your computer gets an IP from the modem and you're on the 'Net.
For reference, my setup at home looks like this:
{internet}--{cable modem}--{wifi router/firewall/NAT}--{multiple computers}
By having the router in between my computers and modem allows me to do the following:
- setup firewall rules
- connect multiple computers
- "clone" the MAC address for the one that Charter has on file.
Hope this helps and let us know how things go.
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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