Getting cable

[Kurt Kessler]

When I originally had cable (and dove into it eyes
closed...) I had only one box. It was a dual boot RH
6/ win 98, and the I wanted the Linux to be on the
net, and couldnt care less bout the doze. My wife used
office for school and work, and had no need to be on
the net with it. She was actually fine with Opera, so
surfing the net on Linux was ok for her. The installer
first told me that I would have to get windows before
I could get on the internet. I was eventually able to
explain what it was that I had... of course, we got to
talking. He didnt believe in firewals or AV, and was
quite the doze kind of guy. I guess he liked the
thrill of "format C:"...

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at opus1.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kurt Kessler [mailto:kessler2k at yahoo.com]
> 
> > Ok, im getting cable tomorrow. Anything special I
> > should tell the installer, or make sure that he
> does?
> > It's going to be piped throughout the house on the
> > existing cable system. I have heard some things
> about
> > 'splitters' and want to make sure i dont get a
> crappy
> > install that will affect my speed. Any tips or
> > suggestions? Thanks.
> 
> My experience has been that the techs who do the RR
> installs are the cream
> of their crop.  Just don't confuse 'em with the "L"
> word, show them a nice
> MS box they can "install" it on, then swap hardware
> when they leave.
> 
> 
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