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 <sarcasm>being 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. Yeaaaah... > > 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
