On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Neil Sedger wrote:
As an aside, what would happen if me and my mate down the road bought cable modems that NTL (in other areas of the country) use and plugged them into the coax TV outlet in the wall? Would be be able to 'see' each other via IP? (this given that they don't have DHCP servers or whatever on our 'bit of coax' just yet)?
It probably wouldn't work, although what is interesting is that the NTL digital TV service uses IP for some (all?) of the interactive services.
Now I never had time to check this out as my PCMCIA card died before just before I moved away from Cambridge but the new Digital boxes manufactured by Pace have an ethernet port on the back that does work. If you plug a machine into it you do get a link light but alas I never had time to see if I could actually use it for anything useful :( or if it had a TCP stack sitting on the other side of it, but the upside of this is my brother in Norwich now has one of these boxen and I may have to go visit him soon with my laptop and network diagnostics kit and do some 'experiments' to see if I can get the pace box to talk.
Adam