Re: [tlug] Tokyu cable

[Chris Mague <chris@example.com>]

I am using Tokyu.

I recommend that if you are not very sure of what you are doing that you
let them set up a Mac or Windows machine as they do not support Unix
(Japanese machine is best with a Japanese friend, if necessary).

The installer guy orginally balked when seeing the number of machines,
but i told him they wouldn't be connected to the net and winked.

The cable they provide out of the router straight into a FreeBSD box with
2 NICs running NAT and ipfw.  I personally have had few problems.

I do not however download huge amounts of stuff and sit around waiting so
I cannot really say how fast, but it does noticably slow at times.

Good luck,

-c

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Chris Mague
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On Thu, 9 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Colin Forster wrote:

> Hi TLUGers,
>
> Since my appartment already has a cable installed from
> Tokyu I'm planning to take the easy road and join up
> with them. Since I suspect they don't provide support
> for *nix (and I know nothing about it also) I'd be
> interested to how I go about it? I'm also interested
> in hearing what Tokyu's service is like if anybody's
> currently using them.
>
> Cheers,
> Col