This bounced as well. But I think the list was confused. Miraz is
subscribed, but I think the backlog is only just catching up.

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:38:04 +1200
To: saturn-cable@onelist.com
From: Miraz Jordan <miraz@firstbite.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [saturn-cable] Saturn-Cable list...
Cc: adsl@freebsddiary.cx
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At 05:10 -0500 19/08/1999, Nathan Mercer wrote with the subject
"[saturn-cable] Saturn-Cable list...":
>This is my first posting to the Saturn-Cable mail list, and I've copied it
>to the ADSL list too (see Dan Langille's posting to NZ.COMP below)
>We may in fact be better to all subscribe to his ADSL list instead (as they
>will discuss other broadband technologies too)

After the newsgroup comments I did subscribe. That only took effect
today, so I don't yet have a basis for judgement. I would say though
that although I've been using the Internet for about 6 or 7 years and
Macs for longer, cable is very new to me. I might prefer this
(presumably) smaller, safer forum for a while.

>We contacted Saturn as
>soon as the service was availably publicly (about 3 weeks ago?) and have had
>the service installed since last Saturday the 15th.

They only put cable in our street in the last couple of weeks.
Installation is supposed to take place next Tuesday (24th).

> 2 Saturn techs came out
>and had it all installed in operational in 40 mins, the cable modem itself
>is manufactured by COM21 (www.com21.com) model is CP2100. The techs hooked
>up another cable connection under our house, and that plugs into the Cable
>Modem, which then has a UTP Ethernet connection which my laptop plugs into.

I am ignorant of these kind of technical things (but a good learner).
Is UTP ethernet the same as 10BaseT?

I'm using an unsupported (by Saturn / Paradise) Mac and presuming I
can set it up easily enough. My dealer says there's nothing really to
set up. My Mac runs Win95 (when it *has* to) so I'm thinking I'll get
the technician to set it up under Windows and then I can just follow
the settings and replicate them on the Mac side.

>This is using the default TCP Window
>Size - I decided to alter the default TCPWindowSize in the registry up to
>64k [snip] Altering the Window size clearly makes an enormous speed
>difference

Pardon my Windows ignorance (I'm a diehard Windows avoider), but does
this mean something different from what it appears to say? To me it
says that you've altered the size of a window - I understand that to
be the area on screen which displays documents etc. I can't see how
that could possibly affect download speed. But then, I wonder, does
*window* in this case mean something like maybe *pipeline* (as in
window of opportunity).

In any case, I'm counting down to Tuesday!

Cheers,

Miraz

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