<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I don't know if this topic is still live but I have used Zen quite a lot for business and home and I have never had a gripe with them, no free modem but as discovered the free equipment is exactly what you paid for ;( Personally I would opt for Zen then a Linksys wireless ADSL router or SDSL if you plan to host.<br><br>O/T:Does anyone in the group use Asterisk as I have big plans but very little hands-on with this distro..<br><br>Thanks guys<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Vladimir Jakubovskij <vladimir.jakubovskij@gmail.com><br>To: Liverpool Linux User Group <liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Sent: Saturday, 30 September, 2006
3:25:00 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Liverpool] broadband and modems<br><br>that's a great advice. thanx!<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Bothwick</b> <<a id="bodyLinks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:neil@stfw.net">neil@stfw.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:41:01 +0100, Vladimir Jakubovskij wrote:<br><br>> does anyone has tiscali broadband here? how is it? wonder what adsl
<br>> modem they provide (do not want any trouble<br>> with it on my suse box).<br><br>My Mum used it, they were awful. She has switched to Eclipse for about<br>the same price and much better service. All the "free" modems that ISPs
<br>provide are low quality USB models, otherwise they wouldn't be able to<br>give them away. They can be persuaded to work on Linux, but they never<br>work well, on any OS. Do yourself a favour and spend £25 on a decent<br>
ethernet modem/router, like this one<br><br><a id="bodyLinks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/48449">http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/48449</a><br><br>--<br>Neil Bothwick<br><br>Standard: (n., adj.) a design target which manufacturers may embellish,
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