All areas that are live are now able to get broadband internet from what I
understand. This only happened recently, just a week or so ago. They usually
run another piece of coax for the computer, so dont worry too much bout
that!.

Indeed it looks to be DOCSIS, no plans for Com21 down here! DOCSIS likely in
Wellington a little later.

D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh McColl" <hugh.mccoll@clear.net.nz>
To: <broadband@unixathome.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 3:04 PM
Subject: RE: Cable modem for Saturn (ChCh)

> Hi David,
>
> Where are you based? We are in Christchurh and last week we had Saturn
cable
> installed for phone/CATV (connection cost for this is free). The
possibility
> of a broadband cable connection was one of the main reason I decided to
> switch over to Saturn. However, both the Saturn Salesman and cable
installer
> informed me that they are not yet ready to fully support residential
> Broadband connections (allthough I hear there are beta testers around). I
> tried to convince the cable installer to run a second coax cable /
jackpoint
> close to my 100MHz switch so all I needed was the cable modem (but no - I
> guess they don't want to give that part away for nothing ;<) Are you
> renting the cable modem from Saturn? [Looks like the Motorola SB3100 is
> DOCSIS compliant] I understand Saturn initially deployed propriatary Com21
> ComPort modems in Wellington but are intending to use DOCIS compliant
modems
> in Christchurh.
>
>
> > Hey nick!
> > Just got a cable modem at home!.. Shouldnt be any problem with Linux
> > support,as it takes plain ol ethernet in. No PPP, PPPoE, PPTP, just set
up
> > your ethernet adapter and plug it in. The cable modem is a
> > Motorola SB3100.
> > It pretty plain box, just a connection for cable and a 10BaseT ethernet
> > port. I have the 256k connection and it seems to perform really close to
> > that speed.. and the ping times are around 13ms to
rachel.paradise.net.nz
> > When I called upthey said cable modems were available in Christchurch
now,
> > though I havnt seen any publicity regarding them. The
> > installation wasnt too
> > complex. They put in an ethernet card on my windows box, configured it
up
> > jsut like any other and gave it a static IP.... whats better, no NAT!
Real
> > routable IP address.
> >
> > David!
> > Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 09:10:52 +1200
> > From: Nick <nick@taxlawyer.co.nz>
> > Subject: Cable modem for Saturn (ChCh)
> > Message-ID: <2248174370.990090652@[192.168.1.2]>
> >
> >
> > Theres currently a debate on the chch linux ug list about saturn cable
> > modem support under linux.
> >
> >
> > there is of course reference to saturn in the cable modem howto
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/isps.html#AEN518
> >
> >
> > do saturn still use the com21 cable modem, and if not what do they use
and
> > is it simple to set up under linux?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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