From ronerwin@u.washington.edu Thu Feb 21 12:32:44 2002 Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.10]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g1LKWgnJ103320 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:32:42 -0800 Received: from homer06.u.washington.edu (homer06.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.40]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g1LKWfNs029084 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:32:41 -0800 Received: from localhost (ronerwin@localhost) by homer06.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g1LKWfBa062454 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:32:41 -0800 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:32:41 -0800 (PST) From: "R. Erwin" To: UW Linux Group Subject: Re: [OT] cable modem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, M. Hornung wrote: > Could you be more specific? I think people are getting confused between: > > "has anyone here hooked up a cable modem to the @Home network and obtained > free network access" > If you live in a shared house/apartment you can put all the computers behind the router and they can share the intenet connection.. ergo someone might have *free* (after providing another service to the billed party) access to the net. > and > > "has anyone here hooked up a cable modem to a "router" in their home to do > NAT or other network fun, while paying AT&T for their basic @Home service" > and this could work as well, it's just using specific names... > > To my knowledge you can not plug in a cable modem and "get" free network > access. Your modem's MAC address has to be registered with AT&T (or > whomever would be your ISP) so that it can talk to the upstream CMTS > (Cable Modem Termination System). They might even control access to their > TFTP and DHCP servers...if they don't that's their problem. > Your modem still does the same thing.. it's first in line.. the router converts each computer to same same image/network image so the tftp/dhcp/domain controllers still think you only have one computer. > Additionally, there may be "filters" on the lines going to each home in > your neighborhood/apartment/utility pole cable box. If you have access to > that, you could perhaps snoop around a bit. > If your neighbor has dsl/cable.. you could buy a wireless router and link to his router via an 80k? connection speed? I've considered wireless too.. but they still have coverage issues and network speed issues.. for a slower laptop? They should be fine... for a server? Forget it. > The only way to find out is to try. BTW, I would be interested in seeing > a map of AT&T's network, if anybody has such information. =) > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 at 10:48, R. Erwin wrote: > > | > |This may be off topic a bit -- but has anyone here hooked up a cable modem > |to a router and not told the cable company? > | > | > | > | > |Ron > | > > > .