Subject: RE: Average Cable Modem Usage ?
From: Christopher Erickson (cerickson@gci.net)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 21:16:50 AKST
ACS requires PPPoE and a router for multi-PC access.
GCI does not.
However, smart people use some kind of hardware Firewall between their network
and their ISP.
Further, GCI doesn't care if you have 1 PC, 32 PC's or 500 PC's on your modem.
-Christopher Erickson
Network Design Engineer II
GCI Internet
2550 Denali St., Suite 1000
Anchorage, AK 99503
907-777-6725
www.gci.com
-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
FeLoNiouS_MoNK
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 8:05 PM
To: 'aklug@aklug.org'
Subject: Re: Average Cable Modem Usage ?
na na..... my modems bigger than your modem .. lol... im not tryin to
put local cable against dsl here.. but since someone brought this up..
if i went over to dsl ... would i have to rent a router from acs or
could i use my existing router.. just a question i had for a while.. i
know in some places they make you pay extra if you want to use a
router.. well anywayz.. bacc to linux..
--------My oTHeR CoMPuTeR iS YouR WiN-BoX!--------
FeLoNiouS_MoNK aka CoDeRED!
Christopher Erickson wrote:
>Our Livewire DSL service does not have any usage quotas, supports up to 32 IP's
>and doesn't require PPPoE either.
>
>Assuming you are in an area where we can get to you with our DSL service.
>
>-Christopher Erickson
>Network Design Engineer II
>GCI Internet
>2550 Denali St., Suite 1000
>Anchorage, AK 99503
>907-777-6725
>www.gci.com
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
>The Alaskan Bear
>Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 5:21 PM
>To: W.D.McKinney
>Cc: aklug@aklug.org
>Subject: Re: Average Cable Modem Usage ?
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>Well, as I work for GCI :} I can tell you that no matter which cable modem
>package
>you get, the most bandwidth you can get is 20gigs/month. The problem runs into
>this
>if you d/l 21gigs or higher, it will cost you an extra $20/gig. I also know
>that I am
>about to run into this problem myself as it's only the 19th, and I am up to
19.7
>gigs :}
>But a cable modem is a good thing if you are looking for a static ip as you can
>have at
>least up to 8 static ips for the modem. I know for a fact that it will support
>up to
>8 dynamic ips per modem. I hope that this will help you out some, considering
I
>don't
>know how much per month you d/l. I do kinda wish that I had ACS's dsl service
>for my
>d/ling, and the cable modem for my server, but I don't have that much money :}
>
>--
>Ted Montgomery
>The Alaskan Bear's Den
>akbear@akbearsden.com
>Registered Linux User: #253251
>907-242-9824
>
>-- There are some things lots of money can buy ... --
>
>-- For everything else, there is LINUX ... --
>
>
>On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:18:11PM -0900, W.D.McKinney wrote:
>
>>I know many of you are on a cable modem, so I'm wondering what it would cost
>>me to change to cable and not get stuck with $$$ bills due to all the
>>downloads I do ?
>>What's the average monthly charge anyway ?
>>
>>Thanks
>>/Dee
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