Re: Slow Cable Modem Revisited
The DFE-530TX+ works fine for me on cable modem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaldhar H. Vyas) writes: Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link DFE-530TX+ (uses rtl8139 driver.) So I put it back in and lo and behold! my connection is zipping along again. -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 *
Re: Slow Cable Modem Revisited
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link DFE-530TX+ (uses rtl8139 driver.) So I put it back in and lo and behold! my connection is zipping along again. NE2000 is about the worst design out there. If I remember correctly, it was a reference design never intended to see tha light of day. Then people started marketting and selling them. The Netgear PCI card (tulip chipset) is pretty decent, supports full duplex 100Mbps, and only costs about $15-$25 even at Best Buy. I still think @home are up to some funny business but for now I'm happy. I was never really happy with their service, but I'm not really happy with my Pac Bell DSL either. I guess I'm just too damned picky. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:23:31PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:04:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link DFE-530TX+ (uses rtl8139 driver.) So I put it back in and lo and behold! my connection is zipping along again. I still think @home are up to some funny business but for now I'm happy. Hehe. Speaking of funny business, I just had @home set up, and the cable installer never left me a modem manual, and 3com is sarcasmbeing their usually helpful self again/sarcasm about offering content obscured in javascript.[0] So I emailed support to ask for a user manual. I'm sent back an 'individual' boilerplate response suggesting I power-cycle the modem and reboot my computer. Yeh... What exactly are you hoping to accomplish by acquiring a user manual for your cable modem? Cable modems are completely unlike DSL modems regarding user-tunable bits. For better or for worse, most of the cable modem's functionality is meant to be controlled by the cable operator. Let's see.. There are status lights marked with incomprehensable symbols. I think I've puzzled three of them out, but the fourth remains unlit and I have no idea what it means. I also want to turn off the LOUD chiming sound it makes when it syncs to the cable. The installer guy said it was a user-settable option. BTW, I don't believe @Home is forcing anyone to use a proxy (though they like it if you do; it lowers their aggregate demand for external bandwidth.) IMO, most funny business with @Home is a result of their rapid growth. Besides, @Home has to depend on the local cable operator to uphold quality considerations for the last mile. I like using a proxy too. Heck, I HAVE to run a proxy on my firewall box for my internal machines. And I like the idea of keeping external aggregate bandwidth down. Hopefully it'll help keep me off their 'naughty' list for daring to have mail-transport-agent and ssh-server installed so I can actually USE my computer. ;) -- Ferret
Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like using a proxy too. Heck, I HAVE to run a proxy on my firewall box for my internal machines. And I like the idea of keeping external aggregate bandwidth down. Hopefully it'll help keep me off their 'naughty' list for daring to have mail-transport-agent and ssh-server installed so I can actually USE my computer. ;) i installed portsentry http://www.psionic.com/abacus/portsentry to deal with this situation. when @home scans my machine for 'naughty' (i.e. functional) ports, the request gets dropped into the bit bucket. still need to do some tweaking but seems to be working so far. combined with psionic's logcheck, i get emails of any portscanning activity, too. - -- ) ,_) (-(__ -|- __ ) | (/_\/(/_ ( ___ | mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | linux : http://exitwound.org | | mozart : http://mozart.sourceforge.net| | buck : http://www.BuckOwensFan.com | ___ | Rule the Empire through force. -- Shogun | | Tokugawa | ___ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE69DHOr9c0KwefYXMRAn5nAJ9H9rpOhZCakFO0AvhJeyiSmm/j6ACfRX61 xFNtug0YVl0GHvOfDgLcd4Q= =TOsD -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]
Hello, This topic is of interest here in Eureka California where PacBell has a strangle hold on broadish band. Cox cable is just about to start a beta test in the area post the upgrades they performed last year. I've learned that the server is of a proprietary class as opposed to the newer systems that are considered non-proprietary. The reason is that it was thousands of dollars cheaper then the newer systems. I am uncertain of what type of modem it is, but think it's based on motorola. I've wired the engineer in hopes that he'll let me beta test their system since I've pretty much given up hope for fairness from PacBell. So the question that comes to me, is what type of protocol is going to be used, and how hard will it be to tweak my stable box to use it. Should be interesting. Now if I could just get a different local telco provider! Monopolies suck. tatah On Friday 04 May 2001 10:23, Nathan E Norman wrote: Cable modems are completely unlike DSL modems regarding user-tunable bits. For better or for worse, most of the cable modem's functionality is meant to be controlled by the cable operator. BTW, I don't believe @Home is forcing anyone to use a proxy (though they like it if you do; it lowers their aggregate demand for external bandwidth.) IMO, most funny business with @Home is a result of their rapid growth. Besides, @Home has to depend on the local cable operator to uphold quality considerations for the last mile. -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls/TELE: USA-707-442-6579\/A GNU-Debian linux user Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ: 12741145 If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom!
Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:34:38AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Hello, This topic is of interest here in Eureka California where PacBell has a strangle hold on broadish band. Cox cable is just about to start a beta test in the area post the upgrades they performed last year. I've learned that the server is of a proprietary class as opposed to the newer systems that are considered non-proprietary. The reason is that it was thousands of dollars cheaper then the newer systems. I am uncertain of what type of modem it is, but think it's based on motorola. I've wired the engineer in hopes that he'll let me beta test their system since I've pretty much given up hope for fairness from PacBell. So the question that comes to me, is what type of protocol is going to be used, and how hard will it be to tweak my stable box to use it. Should be interesting. First, please respect my Mail-Followup-To: header; I read the list so Cc:s are unwelcome. I think you are confusing some issues. Recent cable modems conform to a standard known as DOCSIS. The idea is that any manufacturers DOCSIS modem can be used on a DOCSIS system. @Home has gone almost exclusively with Cisco uBRs for their head end equipment but uses 3Com, Motorola, even Hitachi as customer premise equipment. The Cisco head end stuff is incredibly expensive. The original idea of DOCSIS was that customers would be able to purchase their own modems at the corner electronics store. In many markets the MSO continues to purchase the modems as they are able to get volume discounts and are then dealing with a known product. Several manufacturers rolled out cable modems before the DOCSIS standard. Motorola and LANCity (now Arris Interactive) are two that I've seen. I think what's happening in your area is that Cox is trying to roll out Motorola's MCR product which is not DOCSIS compliant. What does this mean to an end user? Not much, except you won't be able to buy your modem. Many MSOs won't let you anyway ... they want you to rent. The interface between the modem and your PC is still Ethernet, the protocol is still IP. HTH, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpmMj0f72iO9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The original idea of DOCSIS was that customers would be able to purchase their own modems at the corner electronics store. In many markets the MSO continues to purchase the modems as they are able to get volume discounts and are then dealing with a known product. Or, on Long Island, the cable company owns the local electronics stores 8^) -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! I am Donahue of Borg. Go ahead and assimilate, caller... You there?
Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:53:16PM -0400, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The original idea of DOCSIS was that customers would be able to purchase their own modems at the corner electronics store. In many markets the MSO continues to purchase the modems as they are able to get volume discounts and are then dealing with a known product. Or, on Long Island, the cable company owns the local electronics stores 8^) Hey, what's a business if it ain't all in the family? -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpPhjoENe7rr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Slow Cable Modem Revisited
Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link DFE-530TX+ (uses rtl8139 driver.) So I put it back in and lo and behold! my connection is zipping along again. I still think @home are up to some funny business but for now I'm happy. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link DFE-530TX+ (uses rtl8139 driver.) So I put it back in and lo and behold! my connection is zipping along again. I still think @home are up to some funny business but for now I'm happy. Hehe. Speaking of funny business, I just had @home set up, and the cable installer never left me a modem manual, and 3com is sarcasmbeing their usually helpful self again/sarcasm about offering content obscured in javascript.[0] So I emailed support to ask for a user manual. I'm sent back an 'individual' boilerplate response suggesting I power-cycle the modem and reboot my computer. Yeh... [0]Is it worth a try with these companies, when told that one needs to upgrade one's browser to a version that supports javascript, to suggest donating money to the SPI | lynx devel team so they can WRITE a new version with javascript support (insofar as javascript can be ported to linear rendering)? -- Ferret
Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:04:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link DFE-530TX+ (uses rtl8139 driver.) So I put it back in and lo and behold! my connection is zipping along again. I still think @home are up to some funny business but for now I'm happy. Hehe. Speaking of funny business, I just had @home set up, and the cable installer never left me a modem manual, and 3com is sarcasmbeing their usually helpful self again/sarcasm about offering content obscured in javascript.[0] So I emailed support to ask for a user manual. I'm sent back an 'individual' boilerplate response suggesting I power-cycle the modem and reboot my computer. Yeh... What exactly are you hoping to accomplish by acquiring a user manual for your cable modem? Cable modems are completely unlike DSL modems regarding user-tunable bits. For better or for worse, most of the cable modem's functionality is meant to be controlled by the cable operator. BTW, I don't believe @Home is forcing anyone to use a proxy (though they like it if you do; it lowers their aggregate demand for external bandwidth.) IMO, most funny business with @Home is a result of their rapid growth. Besides, @Home has to depend on the local cable operator to uphold quality considerations for the last mile. Cheers, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpLCVzG7LuLk.pgp Description: PGP signature
