[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Dave Weis]

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> Unless it's changed recently, the cable modems that are supplied by
> Mediacom do not do NAT or firewalling or anything but bridge the traffic
> between your computer and the Mediacom network.  The 192.168.x.x address
> mentioned is used strictly for managing the cable modem.

They started providing modems that have nat built in, along with some that 
have wireless. Imagine people wanting to use more than one computer or 
wireless on their connection. Of course, Qwest stopped providing the 
inexpensive wireless modem directly after that...

> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 10:18 -0500, Brandon Griffis wrote:
>> Sorry, this is a little OT from the original question but the IP
>> caught my eye.
>>
>> Am I to understand then that Mediacom does not provide their customers
>> with a real IP address?  I know they're supposed to be DHCP and the IP
>> changes every 3 days or so but 192.168.x.x is a private IP range and
>> that would be a problem for me.
>>
>> Or is the modem a built in NATing router?  The modem gets a real IP
>> but NATs it and sends out a connected IP. If this is the case can the
>> NATing be turned off on the modem so the real IP is passed through?
>> Or can you get just a Modem without a built in NATing router?
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