[geeks] cable modem or verizon DSL (in Rhode Island)?

[Kurt Huhn]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:10:45 -0600
Phil Brutsche wrote:

> Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > Cox, at least in RI, requires DHCP be bound to NetBIOS.  Yes.  Your
> > computer/firewall/whatever needs to send a NetBIOS name in it's DHCP
> > request in order to gain an IP.
> 
> AFAIK Cox hasn't required such things since @Home went out of business
> (early 2002 I think) and handed stuff over the local cable companies. 
> If RI Cox is anything like Cox Cable internet 'round here ("'round
> here" being Omaha, NE) it's just straight, unadultrated DHCP.
> 

My last experience with them in this regard was in mid-2002.  If things
have changed, then good for them.  Last I knew, though, when my
sister-in-law got Cox Cable Internet, it still required NetBIOS - this
was only about three months ago.

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