> Jesus Salvo Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have been putting off broadband installation at home for more than a > year > now. However, this Optus promotion of $0 broadband installation and 3 > or 4 > months free is very tempting. Before I dip in the pool ... > > 1) Does anyone here use Optus Cable ? What hardware do they provide ? > Does it > work with 2.6 kernels ... or do you need some specific patches. I'm > running > Fedora Core 3 at home s well.
I got a cable modem which supports USB and ethernet connections, never tried the USB, but ethernet couldn't be simpler: configure eth1 (or whatever) to use DHCP plug in cable ifup eth1 > > 2) How is the service ? Do you get bumped off if you call / email > technical > support and tell them you use Linux ? I've only ever seen it down due to lightning, so never really had a need to call them. I doubt tech support would want to know about Linux. The installers won't know what to do with Linux either. I gave them a Win2K box to test the modem with, then plugged into a Linux firewall box when they left. Their policy against running servers is about all I have to complain about. -- Felix -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
