Re: [PLUG] re: Comcast @ home

[Adam Schaible <taxindeath@yahoo.com>]

It depends on where you are - I'm used to subscribe to
the service when I lived in Bala Cynwyd (Comcast Lower
Merion) and the new cable modem standard is DOCSIS
which is an all-cable format. No phone modems for
upstream packets. A good percentage of the older,
non-DOCSIS compliant modems don't need phone modems
either. However if you are in an outlying area there
is still a small chance you might need one - a friend
in the Allentown area has to use the phone for
upstream (but it's not Comcast cable either). 

BTW I had very few problems getting @Home to work on
my Mandrake 7.2 box, as much as I recall it was mostly
just getting all the settings straight in linuxconf. I
was pretty pleased with the service, although upon my
move to Plymouth Meeting recently I was shocked to
learn it's not available here :( 

-Adam Schaible

P.S. I just subscribed to the list; is Wednesday
evening's meeting going on as scheduled? 

--- Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:31:39AM -0400,
> gerhard@wtci.net wrote:
> > Can someone tell me do you still have to have a
> modem to do the send for
> > Comcast cable ?
> 
> I'm not a subscriber, but:
> 
>
http://www.comcastonline.com/FAQsList.asp?.=.&FAQCategoryID=4#21
> 
> -- 
> Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *   
> http://www.billjonas.com/
> "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of
> others,  we should
> be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any
> invention of ours; and
> this we should do freely and generously."         
> -- Benjamin Franklin
> 
> 
>
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