[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Linux on AT&T cable (Minh Duong) (Fred James)

[Minh Duong]

I think I've seen that commercial.  But they may be
leaving out some fine print.  On the AT&T Networking
Site, they are trying to sell the home networking
package with Linksys equipment, but part of the
package involves buying additional IP addresses.

I think that they realize many households are becoming
multiple PC families but most don't know how to build
a home network.  Technically you could just buy all
the switches, routers, and cables yourself and install
it with one IP address.  That's the beauty of linux. 
Total customization.

But for an upcharge, they do it (And sell you things
you don't need).  That sort of reminds me of undercoat
on cars.  Some people might get the package so that
don't want the hassle or learning curve of geeky terms
like DHCP, NAT, gateway, DNS, etc.

Minh

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>Message: 11
>Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:09:13 -0500
>From: Fred James <fredjame at concentric.net>
>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Linux on AT&T cable
>(Minh Duong)
>Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org
>
>Left/Right Hand syndrome is standard in large 
>corporations today.
>However in addition to that, AT&T isn't going to 
>provide technical
>support for anything except a MS Windows machine
>connected directly to
>the cable modem.  On the positive side, even their
>support for MS
>machines isn't all that good, so users of "other
>OS's" and routers
>aren't really losing much.
>
>
>MadHat wrote:
>
>>> On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 08:59, Minh Duong wrote:
>>>
>>>Thanks for all the info.  I was concerned after
>>>reading the AT&T Home Networking site
>>>(http://www.linksys.com/att/faq.asp#nat).  But
reading
>>>it closely, it doesn't say that you can't use a
>>>router, they just don't want you to use one.  Most
>>>likely it's because they want to sell you
additional
>>>IP addresses when one will work.
>>>
>>
>> Odd, there are commercials on the AT&T digital
cable saying buy a
>> linksys WAP/router/firewall to use with your cable
modem so the whole
>> family can surf at the same time.  It is a joint
advertisement by
>> linksys and AT&T, so they advertise it, but don't
want you to do it?
>>
>> Not that surprising, left hand doesn't know what
the right hadn is
>> doing...

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