RE: [nottingham] ntl broadband.

From: Andy Brown (nlug@jester.nu)
Date: Fri 11 May 2001 - 08:14:16 BST


On Fri, 11 May 2001, David Bottrill wrote:

>I've had the service for a year now and on the whole it is pretty good, just
>make sure you have a record of the MAC address of the first NIC you connect
>to the cable modem as it will remember this and only talk to this in the
>future.

Hmm, I'll have to remember that when I get round to upgrading the
firewall.

>By the way, one and all, I've been lurking on this list for a few months, I
>don't seem to have found time to introduce myself up to now. I run a small
>network at home with mixed Linux (SuSE on X86 and SPARC) and Windows 2000
>boxen to support 5 demanding, IT literate, family members of which I am the
>only male, do I hear a murmur of sympathy?

No, if you choose to use W2K you'll get very little sympathy 8-)
You should probably expect a few lonely geeks asking after the rest of
the family though *grin*

-- 
Andy Brown

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