[Liverpool] broadband and modems

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:41:01 +0100, Vladimir Jakubovskij wrote:

> does anyone has tiscali broadband here? how is it? wonder what adsl
> modem they provide (do not want any trouble
> with it on my suse box).

My Mum used it, they were awful. She has switched to Eclipse for about
the same price and much better service. All the "free" modems that ISPs
provide are low quality USB models, otherwise they wouldn't be able to
give them away. They can be persuaded to work on Linux, but they never
work well, on any OS. Do yourself a favour and spend £25 on a decent
ethernet modem/router, like this one

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/48449

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