Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-25 Thread Carey Evans
Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They explicitly disallow all servers of ANY kind. No open ports, > except maybe identd. > > A friend of mine was running one just fine under linux, with dhcp and > all, but got his account terminated for having sendmail up :) This is rather off-topic

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 24 Jun 1998, Rob Browning wrote: [ snip ] : IP whenever you initially fire up your computer and click their "start : button", but that's the extent of my knowledge. Mainly I don't know : if they've got some proprietary way to configure the connection. I believe RoadRunner uses a proprietary

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
Rob Browning writes: > Now my question, since I don't know too much about cable modems, is > what's the chance that I could get one of these (by letting them > install it for Win95 on a useless partition) and then set it up under > Debian? I know they're using Motorola cable modems that connect t

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They explicitly disallow all servers of ANY kind. No open ports, > except maybe identd. Hmm, I wonder if that's a local or a global restriction. I haven't heard anything about that yet here. > A friend of mine was running one just fine under linux,

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
The problem with roadrunner is this: They explicitly disallow all servers of ANY kind. No open ports, except maybe identd. A friend of mine was running one just fine under linux, with dhcp and all, but got his account terminated for having sendmail up :) So be careful. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hate you :) I hate you all :)). > > For $60 Canadian, you would neither get a cable nor a modem and *never ever* > get a full time connection here in Germany. While we're off topic, I just made a truly aggravating discovery, and I wanted to see if

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
> One major limitation of DSL is that you must be less than 19000 feet > from a CO (round trip). I didn't know that... 19Kfeet... Let's see... That's about 633 meters... Not much... No, 19000 ft = 5791.2 m. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DSL stands for "Digital Subscriber Loop". I knew that... :) > different "flavors" of DSL (like HDSL, ADSL ...) so the phone companies > talk about xDSL :) That to... I didn't know much, but atleast I knew that... :) > One major limitation of DSL is

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote: : On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: : : > > Wildly off topic ... isn't "The Wave" cable modem access? : > : > Hmmm... You really got me there... I have been lead to beleve it's xDSL, : > but I'm not sure... Anyone? : :

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 01:31:48PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > It's cable modem, and it's REALLY fast (about 400kbits/sec, full time > connection for somthing like $60 Canadian/month). I hate you :) I hate you all :)). For

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > Wildly off topic ... isn't "The Wave" cable modem access? > > Hmmm... You really got me there... I have been lead to beleve it's xDSL, > but I'm not sure... Anyone? It's cable modem, and it's REALLY fast (about 400kbits/sec,

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 24 Jun 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > : Oki, I'm leaving for Vancouver next Friday (3/7). I'll be stopping by London > : over the weekend and leave Sunday around 1800. I don't know when I'll be > : back online, I'll get 'Net access through 'Rog

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 24 Jun 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: : Oki, I'm leaving for Vancouver next Friday (3/7). I'll be stopping by London : over the weekend and leave Sunday around 1800. I don't know when I'll be : back online, I'll get 'Net access through 'Rogers wave'... xDSL, jummy :) Wildly off topic ... isn't

Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Oki, I'm leaving for Vancouver next Friday (3/7). I'll be stopping by London over the weekend and leave Sunday around 1800. I don't know when I'll be back online, I'll get 'Net access through 'Rogers wave'... xDSL, jummy :) Any developer in London who like to go out for a beer (or five :) on Frida