That's
exactly what I did ... Jo (my partner) even started making sure that
there
were the green boxes and that there were the plastic cable company access
pipes
in the street before she would even tell me about somewhere new when we
were
looking for houses. Thankfully Jo is well aware of the plusses of
cablemodems/ADSL as well as being up on AV stuff too. (Great
lass!)
Unfortunately my area *WAS* due to have cablemodems by Oct/Nov last
year
but that's been shelved indefinitely ... as for ADSL, well, the guy who
installed my HH line this morning reckoned 6-9 months at least before they
touched our local exchange!
Phil
Philip,
I
sympathise with the ex C&W problem, I am cuurently in an NTL area and
have
a cable modem. Two weeks time we are moving into our new house in an
ex
C&W area, no cable modem, not even sure about ADSL either :(
The
girlfriend really didn't understand when I said that we had to buy our
house
according to it's ability to have 24*7 cable modem or ADSL !
:)
Alex
Yeah ... I had a cablemodem at my old place (at 512kbits) and I miss
it sooooo much it's untrue!
Sure it wasn't without its occasional hiccups but overall for a 24/7
service that truly was 24/7 and completely unmetered and it was being
shared
between three people in the house and 13 machines then the number of
problems we had with it were easily forgiven.
If
I had the option to get it where I am now I would have done ...
unfortunately I'm covered by what was C&W and their old network doesn't
support digital services reliably.
Be
aware that with a cablemodem your IP address *CAN* change every four hours
which I guess is to stop people running web sites from home ... this may
screw up your plans for the Homeseer server. I say *CAN* change as the
lease
on your IP address expires every four hours (or it did on our setup at the
old house) and at that point a new IP address is granted to you ... ours
actually changed about 3 times in a year so it wasn't bad but there were
few
people on our node of the service. If you find yours is changing regularly
then you could continually poll your IP address and post it up to your
website space that you get with your ISP and access it using that
information. (That's what a friend of mine did when he wanted to FTP big
files from work to home during the day.)
Phil
I am getting my Cable Modem installed on 7th April. I have already
got the CM delivered and have phoned NTL to get the MAC address
registered.
I have a phone line, bsic digital TV and a 64k Cable Modem for £17
per month - that can't be bad :-)
My Father has the 512k modem and it *really*
flies!!
I do most of my big downloads at work and I only occasionally surf
at home. I just wanted the 'always on' feature for the internet at home.
Now I should be able to run that Homeseer server
:-)
Michael
BELFAST
Good news Phil!
Now...stop muckin about with analogue modem
thing and get the ISDN up and running!! :-)
M.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001
10:25 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] New Home
Highway Install...
Well, the BT guy called this morning dead on
time at 8 AM having called 15minutes earlier on his way to make sure
that I was in/up (kudos to the guy for that).
I think it was the easiest install he'd had
to do ... given that the previous occupants had had HH before we'd
moved in then the phone point was right where it was most convenient,
there was still the power point right by it too. He even
hooked the box up onto the original two screws that the
previous one had been hanging from!
Anyway ... it's encouraging ... I'm
connecting in less time and getting connection speeds of 45.6kbits
with transfer rates of about 4kbytes/sec - AND THAT'S ON MY
ANALOGUE MODEM! Dang ... I've complained about the crap line quality
that we have many times before and there's always (supposedly) been
nothing that they could do. It seems I could get an immediate hike in
analogue modem speed by upgrading to HH! *grin* Anyway ... will try
out my ISDN TA this afternoon/evening and see what we can get on
that!
Cheers Guys.
Phil
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