[clug] transact talkweb Marconi box

[Paul]

On 9/02/2007 1:34 AM, Matt Smith wrote:
> On Thu, February 8, 2007 19:47, Paul wrote:
>> I'm going to swap out my Motorolla box and I assume its going to be
>> replaced with  a  Marconi Marconi FLX-Stream ISG box or whatever its
>> called, are there going to be any  issues connecting  this with my
>> Linux  router?
> 
> Paul,
> 
> IIRC, I think this box has some issues unless your network card can
> properly negotiate 100Mbps/FDX, TV breaks up if only at 10Mbps.
> I understand this is a fairly trivial issue these days, but not uncommon
> to use an old 10Mb NIC for a DSL interface on a *nix box.
> 
> Apart from that, there's the good benefit of being able to pull the
> TransACT TV stream from the second interface, something the Motorolla
> cannot do.
> 
> Cheers,
> Matt
> 

I assume this is only an issue IF you had transTV, ie I will be removing this from my package.

thanks
Paul