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posted by dennisn on December 9th, 2008 at 12:11PM

Yikes. Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. I cancelled my service with the piece of shit that is Rogers, and signed up with one of their resellers, 3web, http://www.get3web.com/hi...jsp?page=hsindex ... :| ... but it's cheaper, and anything that hurts Rogers helps me. The modem that I bought (an RCA DCM235) was /supposed/ to work, but it didn't. Murphy's Law. I'm pretty sure it's something to do with the way cable modems are "provisioned" -- ie. the "configuration file" that is forced down the modem's throat after it's MAC address is verified--and not the actual hardware itself. It was able to use the coaxial signal, and even get an IP address and Time-Of-Day from the ISP.

First person to reply wins!

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posted by pasofol on December 9th, 2008 at 2:42PM

have told you as much.

The cable modems need more specific firmware then dsl.
There use to be a time when you could hack the firmware and increase your speeds dramatically. Unlike the dsl modems where the through put is at a centeral office hub.

PS
web3 sucks. Too bad you cant switch to dsl.

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posted by dennisn on December 9th, 2008 at 2:51PM

What have you heard about them?

So far, I like their tech support--generally smart, young, and knowledgeable; and we all share a deep loathing for Rogers. Roger's tech support follows The Official Rulebook For Large Corporations, and thus is absolutely utterly a waste of time and life.

Filtering seems to be the same, unfortunately; but at least I'm saving ~20$ a month from an "Extreme" service that is extremely hostile to p2p.

On a side note, I have gained an extreme loathing for email blacklists (spamhaus, etc) and mal-configured email servers. There are lots of good servers out there (utoronto.ca, gmail.com) that don't block me sending email directly to them, but many others (yahoo.com) block me (or more precisely dyndns). Fucking retards.

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posted by dsk on December 9th, 2008 at 4:44PM

>I have gained an extreme loathing for email blacklists

Hah. You're one to talk, what with your email server banning ALL incoming mail.

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posted by dennisn on December 9th, 2008 at 4:57PM

First of all, mine is a real-life personal and interactive whitelist--not some 3rd party draconian impersonal often-times arbitrary and static list. You are responded to immediately with a delightful and short message, with a trivial hoop to jump through. A trivial solution THAT SOLVES SPAM!

Second of all, everyone should be using some form of "whitelisting". "They" really should have standardized something already. It's ridiculous that we are resorting to flawed or draconian filtering methods, when a simple authentication scheme would work perfectly, albeit *slightly* different than the original vision of email.

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posted by dsk on December 9th, 2008 at 1:35PM

wins what?

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