Subject: Re: Cable Modems?????
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: Taras Ivanenko <ivanenko@ctpa03.mit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/06/1998 16:35:48
> In message <199806052259.PAA20277@concord.televar.com>, Greg Evans writes:
> >Has anyone tried to use a cable modem with NetBSD? If so, what was your
> >experience?
> Using a Mediaone cable modem right now under NetBSD-1.3/mac68k. Works great.
> As someone else mentioned, they will insist on MacOs 7.5.3 or more, 24 Meg
> RAM or more, ? disk space and I belive 33 MHz or more clock speed. I had to
> beg and plead to get them to set me up with my MacIIci. For what its worth,
> the network performance is _much_ faster under NetBSD than under MacOs 7.5.3
> on this machine (> 10x speed improvemnet for FTP). If you go ahead with getting
> one, I can send you setup instructions after they get it going under MacOs.
>
> --Dan
It may be better if you send instructions to the list or FAQ (who is
maintaining it now?) I am also thinking about getting cable modem and
it would be nice to have this information in one place.
taras Ivanenko