{"id":129,"date":"2005-07-08T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=129"},"modified":"2005-07-08T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T21:30:12","slug":"ntl-broadband-configuration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"NTL broadband configuration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just gotten NTL broadband at home, signing up for the 3Mbps offering which is very nice indeed. So far I&#8217;m seeing download speeds of around 70 kbps which is a bit slow to be honest but I understand that the service isn&#8217;t quite working to maximum capacity yet. I&#8217;m willing to wait. It&#8217;s worth it after 3 successive wireless broadband providers failed to hook me up citing the usual reasons of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>too busy to look at it yet as we&#8217;re trying to grab all the customers eircom has disappointed with the lack of ADSL availability<\/li>\n<li>too poor a signal<\/li>\n<li>no line-of-sight<\/li>\n<li>too many trees<\/li>\n<li>wrong star sign<\/li>\n<li>eyes are the wrong colour<\/li>\n<li>wrong time of the month<\/li>\n<li>yadda, yadda, yadda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, the NTL cable modem is neat and tasty and hooks nicely up to my linksys wireless router. However, a word of warning. If you want to retrofit a wireless router to your installation you may have to MAC spoof as the DHCP lease for your location is obviously based on MAC. My linksys router supports this via <em>&#8220;cloning&#8221;<\/em>. NTL installation staff aren&#8217;t exactly clueful on this front so you&#8217;ll have a lot of messing around to do if don&#8217;t pick up the problem straight away. Other than that&#8217;s it&#8217;s a straight <em>&#8220;obtain IP automatically&#8221;<\/em> installation. A word of warning about the Linksys WRT54G router though. The firmware upgrade to v 3.1 is essential for security reasons and its interoperability with NETGEAR 54g cards is less than sensational for anything less than basic WEP. <em>(it doesn&#8217;t work)<\/em>So kids my router is mac restricted, <b>much good it will do me<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just gotten NTL broadband at home, signing up for the 3Mbps offering which is very nice indeed. So far I&#8217;m seeing download speeds of around 70 kbps which is a bit slow to be honest but I understand that the service isn&#8217;t quite working to maximum capacity yet. I&#8217;m willing to wait. It&#8217;s worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}