cox cable and linux

Carl Parrish plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
08 Jan 2003 15:35:21 -0700


On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 00:00, Will Totten wrote:
> If you have the time and patience there is tons of information on the
> web about setting up a linux router.  You can use just about any distro
> or use one of the  several stripped down router versions of linux.
> 
> http://www.linuxrouter.org/
> http://www.flounder.net/ipchains/ipchains-howto.html
> http://www.cthunter.org/linux/linux-gateway.html
> http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/2100/1/
> 
> ... Just a couple quick links
> 
> Now you can go through all the trouble (and it is a good learning
> experience) or you can drop $40-$80 (may even be cheaper now) on a
> decent little hardware router and be done with it.  I started out going
> through a win2k server when I first switched to cox and my speed
> increased considerably when I got the linux router working.  And now
> with the hw router my speed is the same, if not better, than with the
> linux router.
> 
> Anyway, good luck.
> 
> Will
> 

Will what was your reason for going with the hardware router? With
prices dropping the way they have I have been tempted to get one. But
can't justify it because my little 486 box is handling everything just
fine. 


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