[olug] Re: OLUG Digest, Vol 19, Issue 22

[John Dickson]

I worked at Cox in the early-mid-90's. We had a 500kb connection to Prodigy (broadband) at the Head-End. When the decision was made to change gears and use the Motorola equipment (there was no backbone connection) we took 1 of the 5 white Motorola Cybersurfer modems and installed it in a co-workers friends house who just got online with Cox's only competition TCONL (USWest att) and configured his NT box to route so that the other 4 cable routers (my house and 120th Pacific) had an ISP. This was 95-96. We thought this was extra cool. Of course since I worked there we weren't charged.

John

William Haisch <whaisch3 at cox.net> wrote ..
> On Sep 12, 2004, at 10:22 PM, olug-request at olug.org wrote:
> >> and fairly stupid..  (There is some extra charge for 'home
> >> networking'?  What the heck?)
> >
> > Not sure what you mean by 'home networking'. I have my home network
> > without any additional charge.
> 
> I remember that for a while Cox would come out and help you setup your
> "home network" if you had a hub and wanted to pay $5 extra per month 
> for every additional computer (read: IP) that you wanted on "the Net".
> People like us (or highly intelligent robotic dogs that when they bark
> shoot bees from their mouths) can just use a home router (i.e. linksys,
> dlink, smc) and save some money.  I also cloned my router MAC address 
> to that of an old 3Com ISA NIC I have in the kitchen.  On a related 
> note, if you only have one of their services, it will cost you an extra
> $10 a month!  What is up with that?
> 
> -Wm.
> William Haisch
> bill at whaisch.com
> 
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