broadband connectivity advice

[Scott Berry]

Absolutely Cheryl.  I found it pretty straight forward once I figured
out what to do.  It was really funny we have a young guy here who does
the cable setups and he was like "Linux can't do this."  And even his
coworker was the same.  Pretty funny when people don't understand about
Linux.On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Hi chuck and all.
> I use charter cable and have had no problems. In fact, when I tried to
> switch to tds dsl, my actual download speeds were quite a bit slower than
> my cable connection.
> In my case, the technician came and plugged the modem in and set up the
> cable box. after that, dhcpcd did everything else. I'm not sure what
> differences exist between different cable setups.
> and I know what you mean about not going back to a dialup connection. I
> help to maintain a friend's system; she is on dialup and upgrading and
> downloading on her system drive me completely crazy. certainly better than
> no connection at all, but would be hard to live with after you've
> experienced high speed, except as a backup for emmergencies or for use
> when traveling on a laptop.
> Let us know how it goes; I had absolutely no setup problems but others may
> have had more difficulties.
>
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Scott Berry
Email: scott at drscott.dyndns.biz