RE: NTL Cable Modem

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

The Cablemodems connect via Ethernet but we had no problems sharing the
connection - we just had one machine designated as an Internet server which
was on 24/7 running some firewall software which I can't remember the name
of for the life of me.

We used to keep an eye on the speeds that we were getting quite closely and
reported that back to a friend who works within NTL - in fact we even had a
call from them one night to find out what their networks were doing! Our
actual transfer rates did vary wildly but I would say it was rarely below
10kbytes sec (and if it was then rebooting our Internet server would
usually
fix that) and actually reached as high at one point as 220kbytes/sec (yes,
I
know that's *WAY* above 512kbits!)

Cheers

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy Morris [mailto:timothy.morris@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 6:00 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] NTL Cable Modem


I've come into this thread a little late so my comments are not necessarily
directed at Phil's post.

1. You might want to investigate the contention ratio - just in case you
pay
for 512 and end up getting 20!

2. For detailed information on firewalls take a look at http://grc.com. If
you can't be bothered then Zonealarm seems to be the only firewall that
passes all of his tests. If you are just connecting a single PC then the
free version should be fine, but if you want to connect a network you'll be
better off with the Pro version on the gateway machine, and the free one on
the clients.

3. Is a cable modem a true modem (i.e. uses DUN) or does it connect through
ethernet? The one nice thing about USB ADSL is that it uses DUN to connect,
so it is easy to set up nat/ics for connection sharing (providing you are
with the 'right' ISP).

Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 January 2001 18:55
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] NTL Cable Modem



The NTL press release that was up on the BBC web site said that they would
be doing a 128/512 line for £20 a month and a 64/64 line for £5 a month so
I
would assume if they're lobbing a cablemodem in at £25 then the £10 would
include the modem too.

However, for the dough then who wants to go 64/64 when we're all a bunch of
techno freaks and want the best, fastest or whizziest toys around?

Phil