[Nottingham] Broadband...

Colin Saxton colin.saxton at ntlworld.com
Fri Oct 28 23:35:15 BST 2005


Definitely going with black cat...I emailed them and Simon Huggins got
back to me straight away...(it was almost like an auto reply!!)...giving
me details of what they all use with their Linux setup...cheers Simon
(if your in here somewhere!)
 
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 20:09 +0100, Colin Saxton wrote:
> Back again over the broadband issue...haven't yet implemented broadband
> in our new offices...Can only get a BTADSL line (forget satellite) so I
> have looked at two options...
> 
> 1. Black cat (since someone here plugged it and I have since had a look
> on their website...I think they sound more Linux friendly than most out
> there)
> 
> 2. BT Business (But for obvious reasons I am kind of backing away from
> this unless someone can give a quick howto on setup of Linux IPCOP with
> BT broadband! - I have a feeling that the setup won't be straight
> forward)
> 
> Has anyone got any ideas on what modem to buy given that I will be going
> with one of the above? (With IPCOP firewall installed on some crummy 586
> I have got in the corner of the garage!). I don't want to go with some
> off the shelf router I prefer to use IPCOP/Smoothwall.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Colin
> 
> 
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