[geeks] Cable modems/routers

[mrl]

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 14:40, N. Miller wrote:

> I am very glad I bought a very small UPS a couple of weeks
> ago when I hooked up my desktop computer.
> That sounds like the RCA my roomie had with the Comcast 
> service she turned off yesterday since we are all moving.

fortunately, we're on roadrunner, not comcast. won't comcast screw you
by killing your download if you upload too fast?

> I was poking around trying to find out if there was a way 
> to open high ports for P2P and gaming, and to turn on ICMP 
> so I could do network checks when working from home.
> 
> Only docs were "end luser" 'plug in this here' type stuff in 
> a pdf on the CD, and a util that fetched almost completely 
> useless info off of the thing, aside from the MAC.

We didn't even get a frigging cd. wtf is that about?

> 
> But, it would be really nice if these kind of companies had 
> a tier of service between the end luser that "doesn't care 
> how it works" and business class so people like us could 
> have something flexible that didn't cost an arm and a leg.

yes. <sigh>. 
I guess that's why we all buy used enterprise equipment from ebay :)