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- From: kclark@direct.ca (Ken Clark)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.isdn
- Subject: Cable service and IP numbers
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 08:51:25 GMT
- Organization: Internet Direct
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- Hi. I have read a lot of hype and speculation about cable modem services like
- @Home and Roger's WAVE but I can not seem to get an answer to a simple
- question: Do the users of these services provide an actual IP address
- assigned to each home, or or are these services a glorified Compuserve with
- Netscape set up to talk to a proxy server?
-
- Most current ISPs assign a IP address to each of their modems. As cable
- service is supposed to be 24 hour online, either they have to assign an IP
- address to each subscriber, or create their own network and gateway to the
- Internet. Which is it? Are there even enough IP addresses to go around? The
- Compuserve approach is next to useless because you can't do things like use
- Internet phone or set up your own WEB pages.
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- Does anyone who is test marketing these new services or is otherwise in the
- know read these groups?
-
- Thanks for any info,
-
- - Ken
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