I recently signed up with comcast@home in Tallahassee, FL. I have no use for their Excite portal - and the Excite@home Windoze software crashes my M$ OS so bad I can't keep it running long enough to uninstall it. Can't say much for their installation crew, either - but now that *I* got it running properly, it's great. And it only took two onsite visits and three calls to tech support ... and that was just to get the modem, installation manual and DNS's! Hey, that reminds me, now that I don't need the answer anymore - got eth0 working - do any of the newer kernel releases support external cable modems on the USB ports? When I read the change logs they only seem to say things like "USB fixes" or "USB devices added." On Tuesday 21 August 2001 05:43, I was honored with this communique: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:27:50PM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: > > Considering the cable companies have managed to utterly keep out the > > competition, PPPOE seems like a pointless exercise. Of course, with > > Excite@Home burning in flames, I'm wondering if cable based Internet > > will survive. > > Maybe in the U.S., in Canada were we've had cable for a little longer > it's doing quite well, with competition. > > In fact the cable companies here have been making noises for awhile to > drop the Athome name and use their own servers for e-mail, > something they were doing before athome even was. This was about a year > and a half ago, when the e-mail problems with Athome were quite bad. So > we won't really miss the Excite portal or the e-mail services Athome > corporate offered. <G> > <snip> > > > > >Bill Thompson wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Friday, technicians will be at my home to do a cable modem > > > > > installation. The software provided is ppoe from Network > > > > > > <snip> -- A shortcut is the longest distance between two points
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