Broadband

[Brian Kelsay]

For anyone interested in a firewall but doesn't want to build one, I found
the D-Link DI-701 at buy.com for $81.95.  That's the cheapest price I've
seen.  This is for someone that doesn't have the time or spare parts to
build a Linux floppy booted firewall, but still wants security and wants to
tinker.  I think they run Linux in flashRAM.
http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10241714&loc=101

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Rathbun [mailto:randy at randyrathbun.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:42 AM
To: Prof. Jerry Place
Cc: kclug at kclug.org; phase at booyaka.com
Subject: Re: Broadband

On my DSL I am seeing as high as 145 kbytes. My friends who have comcast
are seeing around 300 kbytes at times. My friend in Plano TX is seeing 150
kbyte on @home, and has seen that for the past year. Here at work I have
SDSL @ 1.2 Mbit, and that seems to be what it is doing - I get speeds up
and down of around 110Kbyte or so. 

Uploading is showing about 18kbyte on my DSL, and 150kbyte on the @home in
Plano. We have not tried the comcast connections yet (they run webservers,
but refuse to put any good sized files on it!)

The biggest problem with DSL right now that I can see is they (SWB) are
not playing nice any more. Now they are doing that PPPoE crap. It is a
total pain in the tookus, plus everything I have seen seems to show that
the transfer speeds are almost halved. 

I am also under the impression that whether you use DHCP or PPPoE seems to
be based on what DSL interface you have. My box has a DHCP server in
it, so I use DHCP. My dad's box does not have one, so he has to use
PPPoE. This kinda gets me wondering if we could just get a box that does
have a DHCP server in it and hook that up instead? 

I tell ya, this high speed stuff has me spoiled. 

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Prof. Jerry Place wrote:
> provide faster Internet connections.  I'd be interested in hearing what
> transmission rates others are getting and how others get around the
> dhcp.
> 
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 phase at booyaka.com wrote:
> > While I do have a Win98 partition, I probably won't bother to install
> > the service under Windows, unless I absolutely have to.  Will someone
> > with first-hand experience let me know how to get Road Runner running
> > under Linux?  I already have an NIC installed and working, so will it be
> > as simple as running dhcpcd (as the Cable Modem HOWTO indicates)?  Or
> > will I need to use the rrlogind session management software (described
> > at http://www.vortech.net/rrlinux/rrlogind.htm)?

I would install it under Win98 if for no other reason so that you can
download patches faster. Lord knows it takes forever already because of
all the patch and reboot crapola - why make it any more painful?

> > I know this has been discussed on the list more than once, so allow me
> > to apologize to those easily annoyed by recurring threads.  Up until now
> > I didn't pay any attention.

I don't know about anyone else, but I learn more and more each time! It
doesn't bother me one iota. 
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