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Zadeva: [OS2Wireless] Road Runner (was: Re: [OS2Wireless] LinkSys WRT54G bridge help?)
Datum: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:45:32 -0400
Za: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

On 10/08/07 11:38 am, Lothar Frommhold thus wrote :
Hello all:

I want to set up a WLAN at home using Roadrunner or similar and cable. Roadrunner will support Windoze operating systems only and I wonder if one can use eCS 2.0 and get it to work (2 laptop computers plus 1 printer). I have currently a DSL WLAN up and running (but find the connections to be unreliable and flaky). Would the same (or similar) setup be working with the Roadrunner cable modem? Any help you could give me is much appreciated.

Hi, Lothar. While most everyone has already addressed your issue, let me just add a couple other points to bear in mind:

  1. (For everyone else on this list.) Road Runner is typically a cable
     setup. In the northeast US, it is marketed by Time Warner and a
     couple other cable companies.
  2. Broadband Reports regularly give RR good write-ups; the
     performance is acceptable, and usually reliable (though in some
     cases, both may be slightly untrue; I've had some issues in the
     past couple years with Time Warner's RR offering - erratic
     bandwidth and long service delays).
  3. Some cable installations require (as Al has pointed out) a MAC
     address to associate with your account. Often, this is transmitted
     to the provider via an ActiveX control installed under IE, thus
     requiring a Win32 machine. Usually, however, you may walk through
     this with tech support if you do not have a Win system online, and
     the MAC is typically available on a sticker on the underside or
     back of the cable interface adapter (or "modem," as most of these
     companies like to call them - including Motorola; I've since given
     up on explaining to the level 1 tech people why it's not a modem...).
  4. In order to obtain a DHCP lease (address), it is sometimes
     necessary to clone the MAC address of one of your wired machines
     into your router (not the Road Runner interface, but your own
     router/firewall behind it, such as a LinkSys WRT54G). If you find
     that you simply can't obtain an address, check this out.
  5. Further to #4, remember that as you will likely only get a single
     DHCP address, it is usually necessary to power down your cable
     equipment when switching to a different piece of hardware (unless
     you clone the MAC address). You may need to remain offline for a
     couple of minutes for your lease to expire and be able to obtain
     another one for the "new" hardware. This is normal, and probably
     similar to your experience with DSL hardware (assuming you're not
     using PPPoE or static addressing).

Good luck, and let us know how your new connection works out!

--
Lewis
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