[Sussex] Just a bit of news

[Mike Diack]

Hi Angelo - so does your router connect as per an Ethernet card i.e. into a 
PCI slot.
If so, it sounds like the business. Which make/model is it?
Cheers
Mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angelo Servini" <Angelo.Servini at claybrook.co.uk>
To: "'LUG email list for the Sussex Counties'" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 4:54 PM
Subject: RE: [Sussex] Just a bit of news


> The router I use I would reccomend on the basis that you have the firewall
> separate from your PC, so that your CPU is not tied up managing the
> firewall.  The router also includes the ADSL modem device, which you need 
> to
> connect to the Broadband service.  Some modems connect via USB which is 
> NOT
> reccomended as it can slow your connection.  I think also that other 
> members
> of the SLUG mentioned that USB-ADSL is difficult to set up in LINUX.
>
> You can by the router from SOLWISE   www.solwise.co.uk    You probably can
> get routers that are better than the one I have, as mine is now 6 months
> old.
>
> Routers are and have been used traditionally to connect PC's together to
> network them.  In this case Linux treats the internet and your PC as being
> on the same network.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mike Diack [mailto:mike_diack at hotmail.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, 20 July 2004 16:38
>>To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
>>Subject: Re: [Sussex] Just a bit of news
>>
>>
>>Not knowing a router's role etc (shame on me), can you give advice:
>>- Did you have to buy one - or would that come as part of their signup
>>package?
>>- Is it required.
>>
>>(Am currently using BT Anytime dialup on WinXP/Mandrake 10 and
>>though I'm a
>>computer whizkid - I know very little about ethernet/ADSL).
>>
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