Subject: Re: Cable Modems?????
To: Taras Ivanenko <ivanenko@ctpa03.mit.edu>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/06/1998 16:02:23
Taras Ivanenko wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

i'm still maintaining many of the docs.  if anyone would like to write up
a simple howto on it, i'll be happy to make sure it gets put in the
appropriate place(s).

thanks.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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