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Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:13:47 PDT
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re:TCP/IP Printserver Search

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"J. R. Fox" wrote:
>
>
> This reminds me about something the salesperson at Micro Centre warned me about.
>
> (He also moonlights doing network installations, and seemed to know what he was
> talking about . . . although his English pronunciation was rather hard to
> follow.)
> He said that the cable service provider would furnish very skimpy info, or be
> very > reluctant to furnish certain critical info that would be needed later, to
> configure > something like the SMC box. (I gather they would not even touch this box them-
> selves at the installation, because it's outside the narrow parameters of what
> they do > or support.) This apparently because they don't want you to have the info you
> would > need to turn your "one-Up" cable connection into a home network. I think he
> said > that one of these things was some sort of customer or account ID # ? (That
> doesn't > seem to make a whole lot of sense.) He told me that when the cable modem
> service > is being installed at this location, I should really be there to press the
> installer for them.
>
My cable installer did a one machine installation under W95, knew I had
a router but didn't care or know anything about it, gave me no
information, and I did not need any to get the network to run under
OS/2.

Ray

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