ATT Broadband internet info wanted

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I've had AT&T Broadband for about 8 years (when it first was available in 
Newton as Continental Cablevision). At that time I was running a thin-wire 
ethernet in my house. 

Currently I have a Motorola SB4100 cable modem to a Linksys EtherFast? 
Wireless AP + Cable/DSL Router w/4-Port Switch  (BEFW11S4). I have 2 Linux 
(SuSe 7.3 and SuSE 8.0) systems on the network with a couple of my wife's 
Windows systems and my daughter's occational Mac OSX system. 

Most cable modem and DSL providers support only Windows, which means when 
you talk to them, their drones are reading from a cookbook. 

Over the years, I have had very few problems. I have had 2 service calls 
where a service person came onsite. One time they swapped out my leased 
cable modem (with the old-style AUI connector) with a newer RJ45. I have 
since upgraded from BNC (10base2) to 10baseT. I was running IP Masqerade 
with 2 NICS before I got my Linksys router. 
The most recent problems were:
1. Had a cable outage on Saturday for about 30 mins. Affected both TV and 
Internet. 
2. AT&T has been reconfiguring their network. About 4 or 5 months ago, when 
I lost the network, I called. After being upgraded to someone competent, 
the problem was easily solved. Required a quick self reprovision. 

My speed for the past several months has benchmarked well above 1.5Mbps 
download.  
On 23 Sep 2002 at 14:52, jkinz at rcn.com wrote:

> Hi,  AT&T has recently turned on cable internet in Hudson MA and I am planning
> on converting from a dial-up connection to cable for internet access.
> 
> I have seen some items about AT&T cable on this list in the past.
> 
> Does anyone who currently uses or who has used AT&T cable for internet in the
> past have any suggestions about what kind of cable modem has a good record
> for this kind of use?
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions about what type of firewall config is the 
> most straight-forward and reliable for setting up multiple PC's to share a
> cable internet connection ?
> 
> TIA.
> 
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> Jeff Kinz, Director, Emergent Research,  Hudson, MA.  "jkinz at ultranet.com" 
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