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To: Spots who wrote (9533)	12/7/1999 11:57:00 AM
From: pae	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Aggregate, I don't know. But it looks like that latest R9100 firmware will handle a dial-up as a redundant access path. That was the final selling point for me. I was just discussing 10/100 with a buddy of mine who is considerably more net-literate than I, and the upshot was that I don't run anything that will drive my lan faster than 10. Likely much less, certainly the cable modem speed is not of the right order to make 10/100 an issue. Best I've seen on the cable modem is 120kbs. Though I have been thinking about 10/100 ... just don't think I've got any justification beyond "why not". That will probably eventually work. But not just yet. <g> I have had that "switch between wans" issue cross my radar. The pattern I've seen locally is that once cable enters an area, BellAtlantic (the plodding monopoly) begins to offer xDSL shortly thereafter. So I expect the issue to raise it's head. And of course I will have to have both being nearly the consummate electronics consumer. I you find a box/solution to aggregate two broadband sources, I would be very interested. I do know that one of the webramp models will aggregate several dial-up sources, but I haven't stumbled across similar function for "broadband." Really, "slightly-wider band" would be more accurate for cable. Seems like "broadband" ought to be reserved for something that can do 7 figures of data flow rate. <g> I will pass on how the R9100 install goes. p

To: Spots who wrote (9533)	12/16/1999 10:51:00 PM
From: pae	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Netopia R9100 progress to date... Had to cancel my original order with "Micromatics". Although they showed 10 in stock, they were backordering. Then they told me that Netopia was discontining the model. My guess is they quoted a price under their cost and decided to BS rather than fill. Ordered from onsale for @$500 ... $100 over "Micromatics." Unit arrived 3:50 today (tie with the school bus). I've got it up and running, but only 2 of 4 PCs able to access the cable modem. And I haven't been able to figure out the significant difference between the have and have nots. The TCP/IP properties are set up according to spec: IP Address: automatically DSN Configuration: disable But 2 work and 2 don't. Of the two that do work, 1 is plugged into the 9100 (win98se), the 2nd is a win95 plugged into a hub that is uplinked to the 9100. The IE connection settings are to get the inet from the lan. Scratching my head, p