Re: Rogers Cable Access..a follow-up

1997-06-11 Thread Stuart Charlton
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > By that you mean 10Mb _to_ your house, and 768Kb _from_ your house, > right? > > I usually hear the upstream/downstream terms used the other way, much > like download/upload. That's _to_ my house. The actual media (hybrid fibre-coaxial) runs at 50

Re: Rogers Cable Access..a follow-up

1997-06-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: :Stuart Charlton wrote: :> :> Rogers uses Zenith modems, which go about 500k/s.. Shaw uses MOtorola :> modems, which go 10mbits upstream, and 768k/s downstream. Quite a *BIG* :> difference there. : :By that you mean 10Mb _to_ your house, and 768Kb _fr

Re: Rogers Cable Access..a follow-up

1997-06-10 Thread Ron Welch
I can't speak for Mr. Macdonald but I have a Motorola cable modem from Time-Warner and what I was told was that it does 25 Mbs into my house and 1-3 Mbs out of my house (ie the cable side of the cable modem). The bottleneck is at the ethernet side of the cable modem, which is capable of about 6 Mbs

Re: Rogers Cable Access..a follow-up

1997-06-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
Stuart Charlton wrote: > > Rogers uses Zenith modems, which go about 500k/s.. Shaw uses MOtorola > modems, which go 10mbits upstream, and 768k/s downstream. Quite a *BIG* > difference there. By that you mean 10Mb _to_ your house, and 768Kb _from_ your house, right? I usually hear the upstream/

Re: Rogers Cable Access..a follow-up

1997-06-10 Thread Stuart Charlton
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Richard Morin wrote: > Hi Listers, > As the proud new "user" of a cable modem from Rogers cable here in > Canada and I can say that the configuration was very easy. No need for > dhcpd(sp?) clients at all. Just thought i'd follow up as well with my experience.. i have Wa

Re: Rogers Cable Access..a follow-up

1997-06-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: :On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Richard Morin wrote: : [snip] :This is not the case with the Wave in Burlington, Ontario (via CableNet :which I think leases the technology from Rogers). IP addresses are :assigned dynamically and therefore dhcpcd is needed. I insta

Re: Rogers Cable Access..a follow-up

1997-06-10 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Richard Morin wrote: > As the proud new "user" of a cable modem from Rogers cable here in > Canada and I can say that the configuration was very easy. No need for > dhcpd(sp?) clients at all > > 1. The ethernet device is a SMC Etherez 8416, which was supported by > SMC-Ultra