[Gllug] ADSL recommendations

[Steve Nicholson]

> Actually I'm pretty sure I've seen a PCI USB card for £10...
I've seen them for £16

I use mailbox.net.uk as well and based in E16, the guys are very Linux
friendly (if you have a problem you talk directly to the technical guys,
not the phone goons like at BTstupidworld), I have a static IP address
etc.  I don't think you will get more than one from any ISP for a USB
connection due to BT and it supposed to be a single user connection
(what is a single user doing with more than IP).

thanks
Steve


>
> More importantly: What's this crap about BT not allowing incoming
> connections? That's got my interest!
>
> I don't think the dongle on the end of the modem makes any difference
> (certainly not to me it doesn't - they're all plugs at the
> end of the day)
> but the incoming/outgoing issue makes a lot of difference.
>
> Who else is ADSL available from (given I live in Whitechapel)?
>
> Richard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk
> [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of William Palfreman
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:22 PM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] ADSL recommendations
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 tet at accucard.com wrote:
>
> > It's just occurred to me that it's almost certainly not
> worth getting a
> > PCI-USB card. You could probably pick up an AT pentium
> motherboard and
> > CPU for about the same price (or at least not much more),
> which would
> > hopefully come with USB on board.
>
> I bought a P200 with 64Mb RAM, a 2Gb disk, cdrom, PCI slots and _2
> built-in USB ports_ for £80 recently.  Trying to force a 486
> to do USB is
> bound to cost more, give you endless hassle re memory, and
> more points of
> failure.  The is a proper role for 486s - traditional low-power Linux
> things like DNS, running modems, living-room ssh terminals.  The BBC
> apparently running the whole of Ceefax from a pair (for
> redundancy) of 486s
> with 10base2 nics running 2.0.39.  Spending good money on making a 486
> into something it isn't is missing the point IMO.
>
> Bill.
>
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