[cumbria_lug] Broadband and Linux

[angie ahl]

I hate those frog modems, nothing but a pain from what I've heard.

We bought our own 4 years ago just after the trial finished. It's an 
alcatel speedtouch but not the frog, it's the ethernet router. It's 
been a dream. We do have to reconnect once every 4 months or so.

There used to be a problem that sometimes when they switched someone on 
you'd get booted off and have to reconnect, I don't know whether that's 
still the case.

As for ISP's and support I wouldn't even think about it. When the trial 
started in Kilburn there was officially no Mac support. So like a lot 
of people we took a floppy down to the local internet cafe and did the 
tests they required on them. Sent them back to BT and then configured 
it on our macs. When they rolled out a year later Macs were supported 
(after a load of us explained how much easier it is to config a mac for 
DSL ;)

So use the internet to help solve problems as I guarantee a good google 
will find better answers than the helpdesk guys have.

I just had to look it up. We first got DSL 1999-05-21 nearly 6 years 
ago. I do go loopy every time we move and go back to modem while we 
wait for the jumper to be applied at the exchange ;)

HTH
ANgie

On 29 Mar 2005, at 11:17, Dave Murphy wrote:

> guy.murray at boltblue.com wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>       as broadband approaches even the remote corners of darkest 
>> cumbria, are there
>> any issues with Linux compatibility with the ISP's and their 'free' 
>> modems, providing
>> one is happy to set up the connection manually?
>
> If you've got an old (USB enabled) PC around, I can thoroughly 
> recommend IPCop. Works a treat here with an old Alcatel 'Frog' modem.
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Dave Murphy - http://www.schwuk.com
>
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