On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, you wrote:
> My cable provider charges me 1350/- a month with unlimietd downloads. But the
> speed never exceeds 50kbps. Assuming 6KBps, the total download can not exceed
> 1.5GB. So I think you are getting a quite a fair deal. Try getting web space or
> extra e-mail ids to compensate.
Can you please give the providers name ?
And does this total download includes the downloaded mails also ??
And what's the relation of web space to such cable modem connections.
>
> Don't expect much from cable. To my experience, it's a good constant telefone
> connection. It's total payback if your other option is telefone line. But it's
> certainly not broadband..
>
> And it works great with linux. I don't have a cable modem connected to it. My
> ISP puts a modem for a hub. So no problem really.. It's just a network card and
> DHCP.
Is wvdial works with this ?
>
> To measure total download, dump all download on a single partition and keep on
> doing df periodically. But it's no point calculating that. It usually works.
Actually i could get this becoz should i have to force all employees to
download at single location.:-(
And what about web access. ??
>
> Better get freebsd/debian and update daily. That will make sure that you are
> using connection to it's potential...;-))
what different tools does these provide for this. ?
>
> And get kdevmon. it's a kicker applet for KDE2 similar to kppp bar graph.
> Excellent to monitor throughput.
ok googling for this...
Regards
-Yash
>
> Shridhar
>
> Yashpal Nagar wrote:
>
> > Hi Friends,
> > One cable modem connection provider is giving us the option to have the net
> > connection for total download of 1GB @ 1500 Rs/month. And it will charge @2Rs
> > for further 1MB each.
> > I have some queries to ask regarding this.
> > 1. How this cable connection works with linux ? any good/bad exp & special
> > instructions etc for connectivity.
> > 2. Is there any tool for linux so that i can
> > measure the total download at the end of month. ?
>
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