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> I have used both RCN and Comcast cable-modem service. Both work > straight-up. Any OS you want, as long as it can talk to the Ethernet card > and obtain an IP address, unless you run a "broadband gateway/router", in > which case the cable modem can talk to the gateway/router, and you do > whatever internal networking you want. RCN = bad. RCN was the only provider in my area for a while, and I don't have a good thing to say about them. They transparent proxy all the webpages you visit, the don't allow inbound port 80 (which is common these days, but I still hate it, it's why I went to Speakeasy), for a long time, they routed our all our connections through San Franciso (I sat on hold for a long time complaining about that one), and for unknown reasons, out latency between the 4th and 5th hops outside our apartment would skyrocket (2s+). Don't use RCN. I don't know if they have improved, but I would not give them a second chance. My SO uses Comcast, and its simple getting a Linksys router up on the connection, so Linux shouldn't be hard either. They do have intresting proxy issues though, but I haven't investigated. ~Ben
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