[s-cars] RE: Be ready !!!!!

[Lee Levitt]

Thanks for the tips Cody. I'm about to do two installations, one at my
house, and a matching one at my dad's.

With regard to the cable tv tip, I know :)

Know what else I found out...AT&T takes a *long* time to shut off cable
after customers switch to RCN. I switched almost a year ago and then found
that RCN didn't carry SpeedVision, er Speed Channel. Switched the cable tv
back to the AT&T feed.

Now I'm not paying anyone for cable and am getting feeds from *both* RCN and
AT&T <grin>

If AT&T does shut me off, I'll ask them to provision a basic service at
$6/month.

Interestingly, the RCN installer first disavowed any knowledge of their
inability to shut off basic cable (as long as I was getting phone and/or
Internet service from them). Then he offered the information that they're
*supposed* to put a filter on the line...and then *gave* me a splitter so
that I could feed both my tv and cable inputs.

I guess the fact that I had done *all* the inside wiring for both networks
impressed him...

Lee

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Cody Payne
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:02 AM
> To: lee at wheelman.com; Linus Toy; CaptMagu at aol.com;
> Keith.Maddock at trw.com; s-car-list at audifans.com; flhuillier at siebel.com;
> brian at touchtechsystems.com
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] RE: Be ready !!!!!
>
>
> Lee,
> 	On the Wireless Network...it is pretty easy to set up but
> sometimes less intuitive to secure.  Suggest the following:
> -1) Make 128 Bit WEP Mandatory..secure with either key or good password.
> -2) Absolutely change your SSID from "linksys" to some other
> value that you will need to type in to each wireless node
> -3) Only set the DHCP Hosts to the number of computers you have
> in the house
> -4) Firewall the entire network w/ Zone Alarm
>
> Everything works great here in my house but I only use it for my
> laptop not for my desktop (As being a gamer any latency costs you)
>
> In regards to DSL vs. Cable and latency:
> 	- Rarely on a traceroute to a major ISP or Portal see
> anything greater then 10ms which is the same I would see on
> Copper (T1, DSL etc) Cable is the way to go as long as you
> neighborhood is not saturating the local bandwidth.  Plus it is
> cheap..you can get 3Mb/sec download and 384Kb/sec download for
> under $90 and 1/2 that (which I have) for $45 per month.  Also if
> you want to cheat your cable company you can cancel your TV cable
> and they are still forced to give you the basic package (they
> cant turn it off)
>
> Cheers
>
> cp
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Levitt [mailto:lee at wheelman.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 4:47 AM
> To: Linus Toy; CaptMagu at aol.com; Keith.Maddock at trw.com;
> s-car-list at audifans.com; flhuillier at siebel.com;
> brian at touchtechsystems.com
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] RE: Be ready !!!!!
>
>
> Linus writes:
>
> > DSL now 2 years strong...(though it took 11 months to get the
> service)...
> > but just in case, the neighbor has cable, we both can see each
> > other's WiFi access points, and have passed along encryption
> keys.  Now if
> we can just
> > do something about our electric utility...
>
> I know I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm installing WiFi this week.
> Looking forward to seeing who else in the neighborhood has a setup :)
>
> Probably nobody...maybe I'll rent out some bandwidth to my tech-challenged
> neighbors!
>
> Lee
>
>
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