Infrastructure

Busy few days here at the ranch. I got a DCT6100 from Buckeye for their HD service, had them come out and install a cable modem (3.5Mb/s down, 384Kb/s up, at half the cost of my 1.1Mb/s up/down SDSL from Speakeasy), and just got done flattening and rebuilding my firewall box with ISA Server 2004. The most remarkable aspect of these changes is that so far, they’ve all gone flawlessly (except for a bad cable box, which was easy enough to fix). The boys and I are looking forward to watching Robbie Knievel’s big jump in HD on Saturday.
Update: this morning, no Internet when I awoke. Turns out that, contrary to the installer’s advice, the NIC connected to the cable modem must not be set to DHCP. Oops.