Since you have a router, you shouldn't have any problem connecting your network. Just configure your router. I'm using HOT cables + netvision and it works fine. Eran
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > If you ISP supports it (Barak does) you can use DHCP instead of > > L2TP/PPTP. > > In this case, you router no longer needs to do anything (beyond NAT) > Thanks, but maybe my question wasn't clear enough. In the past, I did pptp > and > NAT on my Linux box and shared my internet connection over the entire > network. Since I bought an ADSL router from Bezek, everything is > literaly "plug and play" on all Linux and Windows machines. I have the > router > set up to provide internal IP addresses to each machine and absolutely no > set > is required when adding or upgrading a machine. It's so "easy" that I > don't > want to go back to the old way (administering the pptp and NAT on my > machine). So my question is really, can I do the same with cable? Of > course, > I know I'd need to get a cable modem from HOT, but would it just plug into > the router or what? Of course, the ADSL component of the router would be > useless, but I'm assuming (and here I may be wrong) that I could still use > the same router after plugging the cable modem into it. > > > > > 2 - Is cable as reliable as ADSL - speed, disconnects, etc? > > On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > In my experience - far more reliable. (But it may depend on the state of > > your local HOT infrastructure) > > My IP was last changed ~4 months ago. > > On Wednesday 08 October 2008, sara fink wrote: > > Don't do the mistake to move to Hot. It will be the mistake of your life. > > Lots of disconnections, old modems, bad service, over charging,waiting > on > > the phone line at least 20 min). > > WOW - there couldn't be more conflicting opinions. Did one of the two > (Gilboa > and Sara) have unusually good or bad luck? Can anyone else give an opinion? > Since this may be a bit OT, you can answer directly to me, instead of to > the > list. If it's of interest, I'll try to summarize the opinions I get. > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Sent by KMail 1.9.9 (KDE 3.5.9) on LINUX Mandriva 2008.1 > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Thanks, Eran
