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Unfortunately Lyttelton is not one of the areas they are cabling. BUT I can
get adsl there now, and will do so when I get my s*** together!

> 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!

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