Tyrion wrote:
So I just started a new job selling upgrades for time warner and some of their training seemed..... less than technically informed, let's say. So I have a question for all you road runner guys out there. Does linux still work on their setup? Is it like the bad old days with the logins and all that or is it like cox where the cable modem will talk to any computer?
They got rid of that horrible rrlogin stuff years ago. Linux works on it just fine from what I understand. I am in a Cox area.
Also, if anyone has digital phone and a Tivo, I'd be interested to know if you have any problems with the Tivo getting updates. They tell us that Tivo will not work with digital phone, but I can't for the life of me figure out why that would be.
Tivo uses a modem to make the call I believe. You are taking digital, converting it to analog, then convering it to digital, etc. It is possible that Cox is using some sort of compression or something on their digital phone line (I assume you use a regular analog phone which Cox then passes through an A/D converter aka an Analog Telephone Adapter in the VOIP world) so there are plenty of opportunities for the modem signal to get trashed. It is similar to how you cannot use an analog FAX machine through an ATA if you have any sort of compression turned on in your VOIP. Any sort of packet loss in the VOIP or Digital phone circuit would cause problems also.
In the past, this group has had way more of a clue than any tech support I could call, so I figured I'd come ask here.
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