@Home

[Richard Fairfield]

Mike:

I can tell you a lot about ATT @home service, the truth about their
treatment of dynamic vs static IP addresses, OS support (including
dual booting machines), their cable modem, and potential problems.
I won't do it in an email message but you can call me if you like.

Richard Fairfield
Math Sciences Computing Center
University of Washington
MSCC Departmental Telephone Number: 206-616-3636
My Office Telephone Number: 206-685-2303
Fax: 206-685-7419
rcf at ms.washington.edu


On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, mike h wrote:

> Later this afternoon I'm having @home activated (installed) at my place.
> I know there has already been a ton of discussion regarding @Home and the
> service they provide.  There's on thing that had me confused when I
> talked with the rep on the phone though...he said that they usually deal
> in dynamic IPs...but he said that if I was nice enough to the tech who's
> coming to my place that he might give me a static IP.  What's the deal
> with that?  Sounds pretty shady to me.
> 
> On another note, are there different kinds of cable modems (I'm thinking
> like internal/external like the DSL modems) I should watch out for?  I
> plan to go from the cablemodem to a NAT box with two network interfaces
> (for local net and for Internet).  If you've done this and want to warn me
> about anything feel free =)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> Michael Hornung		foobar at u.washington.edu
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