Roadrunner

[Nelson Garcia]

To answer the original questions:
- The cable box should not care what your MAC address is.  It may give you a
different IP if you change cards, etc. but as long as your machine can
negotiate a DHCP lease, you should be OK.
- If by installer you mean the Oceanic person doing your physical
installation, you will have to let him setup your windows machine (they do
not support Linux) or tell him when to stop (when you get the "cable" light
on your modem).
- I have done quite a few Linux/RoadRunner installations with various linux
routers and never had to worry about MAC addresses, your friend might have
misconfigured something (i.e. DHCP client).


Now the "is Oceanic evil?" question:

Does Oceanic really give you an IP address for each additional computer you
pay for?  That's not what I was told when I inquired about their service for
our elementary school project. Worse yet, they told me that I would have to
pay extra to have a permanent IP address.

What they said to me about bandwidth was that "it is the same that you get
for one computer".

They also told me that they would REQUIRE me to have a firewall that meets
their specifications; they didn't tell me what those specifications were but
quickly offered to sell me a solution.

I just signed up our school with Flexnet for ADSL service to our computer
lab, I'll be happy to share my experiences once I get everything setup.  All
things indicate that I won't be disappointed.

Aloha,
Nelson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric [mailto:hattenator at usa.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:37 AM
> To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
> Subject: [luau] Re: Roadrunner
>
>
> I just wanted to point out to everyone that Oceanic isn't evil.
> They're not
> trying to put a multiple computer tax on you.  When you pay the $10/mo. (I
> thought it was $7), they resell you an IP address that they had
> to pay for.
> Maybe not that much, but that's capitalism at work.  And having
> your own IP
> address for each computer can allow you to do a lot more without having to
> do some serious hacking and port forwarding.  Most notably you
> can NSLookup
> authentication systems easily.  Whether this type of thing is worth the
> price is up to you.  And as far as splitting your bandwidth goes,
> how often
> do you download 3.5MB/s on your 4 computer home network anyway?  True, it
> may be hard to get that fast considering that Oceanic's transpacific lines
> seem to max out at about 100K/s/connection, but having two cable lines and
> modems wouldn't help you out any.
>
> "About the rr installer, I don't think they appreciate people
> splitting the
> connection (they like to charge an additional $10 a month for each extra
> computer,and all they do is split your bandwidth"
>
> -Eric Hattemer
>
>
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