[nmglug] that new Qwest offer

[Andres Paglayan]

somewhere I read they use barracudas with a very scaled down firmware,
people reports success in upgrading the routers with the last  
firmware and getting a pretty decent router,

besides that, I'll win if I bet about MSN trying to keep as much as  
possible obscured from the user,

On Jan 19, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Sam Noble wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 18:44 -0700, Mark Galassi wrote:
>> * do they require some integrated proprietary s/w to run on
>>   Windows/Mac, or do they "just work" with an off-the-shelf DSL  
>> modem?
>>
>> * do they offer routed IP addresses?  I don't need it fixed, but I
>>   need to be able to ssh to it from the outside world.
>
> A family member of mine, (in Iowa) seems sort of satisfied, but  
> it's the
> only high speed connection he's ever had I believe. The 'modem'  
> that he
> has from them is an annoying little bridge/router that keeps the  
> public
> IP for itself and dhcp's 192 addresses to his network. So for me it
> would be completely unacceptable, as there's no way to configure port
> forwarding or anything, all connections have to be initiated from  
> inside
> the network.
> I guess the big question is whether it will work with a different  
> modem
> and your own router.
>
>> * any privacy concerns?
>>
>> * how bad is it that they are Microsoft?  (note that in general I  
>> find
>>   that all proprietary s/w companies are lame, not just Microsoft)
>
> :|
>
>
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