broadband access

[kaworu at bu.edu (Evan Sarmiento)]

This is the first time I've heard of this. I've had a lan behind a gateway
for atleast three months now, nothing's happened to me.

I don't have a VPN, so, it doesn't really affect me. You should take that
up with RCN yourself :)

Anyways. You can choose which stuff you want from RCN. You can get just
the cable modem, just the cable tv, just the phone, or cable modem + phone
(which is what I have), etc, etc.

Hope this helps, I like RCN.


- Evan S. | http://sekt7.tripod.com

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 jc at trillian.mit.edu wrote:

> --------
> 
> |  The website for RCN is www.rcn.com
> |  Your IP address will always stay the same if there is some traffic coming
> |  from your box. That's why I always have IRC running in the background.
> |  You can get cable TV from RCN.
> 
> Do they still require that you get the TV if you want just the  modem
> connection?   A  few  months ago, they did.  This would be extra.  We
> currently have a  Mediaone  cable  connection,  and  the  wife  would
> probably  grumble  about  having  to  reprogram her three (count 'em)
> remote controls and the VCR. OTOH, we had a Medaone cable modem for a
> few  months  last  year,  and  they  kicked  me  off  because I was a
> "hacker".  Actually, they wouldn't tell me anything at  all  specific
> about  what  they  didn't  like; they just terminated the service and
> said (verbally) that if I didn't like it, I could take them to court.
> So  I  wouldn't  mind  switching the TV to RCN if they really support
> linux ...
> 
> I have kept one bit of email in which  the  Mediaone  folks  made  it
> clear  that  servers, even email and time servers, are forbidden.  It
> did strike me as curious that Mediaone  objected  to  my  getting  my
> email delivered directly to my home machine. They insisted that email
> had to be delivered to their machine and then picked up  from  there.
> This doubles the packet count and uses space on their disks, so their
> motive is a bit of a puzzle.  I can't imagine that  they  ever  found
> anything  in my email that was sufficiently exciting that they wanted
> to read it all.  But what else could be their motive?   And  if  they
> wanted a copy of my email, why didn't they just intercept the traffic
> to port 25, so I wouldn't know they were doing it?
> 
> |  They allow servers if they're non commercial.
> 
> I bet they'd like you even better if you  applied  for  a  commercial
> modem connection.  ;-)
> 
> |  $70 for cable modem, one local phone line, non-listed & non-published
> |  number. Plus two free options. I have caller id and anonymous call
> |  blocking.
> |
> |  $120 for EVERYTHING. Cable modem, two phones, and cable tv. 
> 
> How much per month?  Maybe I should check out their web site again.
> 
> Hmmm ...  I just tried, and I've managed to get all of three pages in
> 10 minutes.  The silly browser sits there for the longest time before
> it shows anything at all, and the text appears on the  screen  a  few
> chars at a time.  It shows a transfer rate of below 100 bytes/sec.  I
> wonder what the problem is?  Other sites seem to work fine.
> 
> I did find the following in their FAQ:
> 
> What Operating Systems do you support?
> RCN offers PC support for Windows 3.11, Windows 95,  Windows  98,  NT
> 3.51 and NT 4.0. Macintosh support is also available for OS 8 and up.
> 
> No mention of linux here.  I wonder if their linux "support" is  like
> Mediaone,  who  require that you be running Windows when they install
> it.  My current machine doesn't have Windows.  I did have the  usual
> involuntary Windows installation, but the disk went flakey, and I saw
> no reason to waste space on the second disk.
> 
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