RE: [TCLUG:2254] Cable modem is ripping me off

["Austad, Jay" <austad@marketwatch.com>]

This reminds me of a little story.  A company that we work with also housed
some of our employees out in California, and some of our remote offices
VPN'd into them, and got internet access through some terrible NT proxies.
One was a Netscrape proxy and the other was a MS proxy.  The netscape proxy
was the only one that would handle socks5 ftp programs properly, but it
bluescreened about 6 times a day.  And the MS-proxy machine would crash at
least once a day.  Alot of our people had to upload time sensitive video
files to our site.

I whacked up a linux box and installed squid and dante, gave it the same IP
as the netscape proxy, and had one of our guys sneak it into the server room
and secretly replace the netscape proxy.

It was originally meant for about 10 people to use, but almost every
employee of the other company started using it, over 500 of them.  There
were constanly over 300 ESTABLISHED connections to the box at any one time.
Never ever had a problem with it, over 300 days of uptime before they took
it down.  They tried to block Napster because it was using so much bandwidth
and they couldn't figure out how it was still getting through because they
blocked it at their proxy.  They finally figured out no one was using the
crappy MS proxy.  It took them over a month to get all of the employees
switched back to their proxy before they could remove mine.  

Jay



-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Maloney [mailto:adamm@sihope.com]
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 2:15 PM
To: 'tclug-list@mn-linux.org'
Subject: RE: [TCLUG:2254] Cable modem is ripping me off


No, I told them that if they brought in a 486 or better I'd install
FleeBSD on it and have it be a router/firewall, but they decided to go
with the "better" $5000 solution with a Compaq server and MS Proxy.

Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Sihope Communications

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Austad, Jay wrote:

> I can sell you some magic packet aligner power magnets for only $99.95.
> Just wear them on your ethernet cable.  Your tinfoil solution just isn't
> cutting it.  :)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Maloney [mailto:adamm@sihope.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 1:41 PM
> To: 'tclug-list@mn-linux.org'
> Subject: RE: [TCLUG:2254] Cable modem is ripping me off
> 
> 
> No, we forced it down to half duplex at 10base and it still was
> problematic.
> 
> Adam Maloney
> Systems Administrator
> Sihope Communications
> 
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Austad, Jay wrote:
> 
> > Whenever you see that much packet loss on a local network, it's usually
> > mismatched duplex.
> > 
> > Jay
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Adam Maloney [mailto:adamm@sihope.com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 7:20 AM
> > To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:2254] Cable modem is ripping me off
> > 
> > 
> > How is that working for you?  One of the tenants in our building bought
an
> > ethernet connection to us, and they're using a Netgear ethernet router
as
> > their gateway.  I kid you not, the thing drops every other packet.  We
> > opened a dos prompt on their win server and ran a ping, 50% packet loss.
> > 
> > Adam Maloney
> > Systems Administrator
> > Sihope Communications
> > 
> > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, BT wrote:
> > 
> > > I picked up a netgear Gateway Router box and a net hub, got the hub
with
> > my nic cards,
> > > the router lets use as many boxes as I want.
> > > 
> > > Apu wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I used to run two boxes using cable modem and a small hub, but
> recently
> > I observed
> > > > that I cannot use them both at the same time for internet. When I
> called
> > them they
> > > > told me that I have to purchase another IP for $15 per month. (which
> is
> > kinda high on
> > > > top of $50).
> > > >
> > > > Anyone has any good suggestion for me, how to make this work or a
> better
> > service from
> > > > somewhere else?
> > > >
> > > > Apu
> > > >
> > > >
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