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what's the problem its plug & play...
Authored by: loren_ryter on May 07, '02 11:34:55AM

I don't quite get it. What's the issue? I have AT&T BI. I threw whatever installer they gave me in the trash. Just plug the cable box into your ethernet connection, set your network for DHCP, apply (if necessary), and blam it's connected.

All their installer installs is some proprietary version of a web browser. Who needs it?



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what's the problem it's plug & play...
Authored by: uochris on May 07, '02 01:05:40PM

I'll second that. It was pretty much plug and play for me as well. I can't remember if I had to enable DHCP or if it just worked straight away but it was a piece of cake. Perhaps they have different set ups in different parts of the country.



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what's the problem its plug & play...
Authored by: tomb11 on May 26, '02 06:21:06PM

I recently dumped my Dell for a new IMac. When it came time to install my DSL software I was thinking like a Windows user. It's gotta be difficult right?

I got the MAC version of Access Manager from my ISP's website and installed it. It ran under Classic 'cause there was no OSX version. I screwed around with it for about 5 hours trying every trick I knew about TCP/IP, PPP, PPoE, etc... to no avail.

I finally decided to search around for an alternative. I got some info on the web telling me I didn't need all that crap anymore. Ten minutes later my connection was done and I haven't had a single problem since.

Everything works better on a Mac.

Tom



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