[Gllug] Wireless access point/ADSL Modem/Router

[Gordon Joly]

At 22:38 +0100 2004/04/27, Chris Bell wrote:
>On Tue 27 Apr, will wrote:
>>
>>  Chris Bell wrote:
>>  >>[0] I phoned up and asked them if a certain product would dial my ADSL
>>  >>connection, the salesman said yes[1] so I bought one.  I got it a few
>>  >>days later to discover that it doesn't.  I called up and they offered me
>>  >>either a discount off an ADSL modem to do the dialing, which was a lousy
>>  >>deal, or said I could return it although I would lose the postage both
>>  >>ways if I did.
>>  >
>>  >    Not sure what you mean by dialling your ADSL connection.
>>
>>  I plug it into the phone line and configure it, and it presents me with
>>  an ethernet socket I can plug into my network.  I don't think it
>>  requires too much imagination to understand what I meant.  I reckon I
>>  would have confused the salesman (who today told me he had never heard
>>  of WEP) if I had userd your description.
>>
>>  Will.
>>
>    But there is no dialling involved, in the same way as there is no
>dialling involved in an ethernet connection.


As an aside, my Nokia IP 55 connects via the ADSL or phone side.

:-)

It dials up (manually) via an external (56k) modem when the ADSL 
fails and maintains the LAN (and WAN?) settings...

Gordo.

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