[Sussex] pppoa

[Desmond Armstrong]

Hi Angus,
Yes I am a Tiscali user.

When I see a USB modem I ditch it fast.
The reasons:-
1/ It use the computer processor to make it work so it slows down your 
broadband. I have seen broadband with a 600MHz machine where the 
broadband is actually slower than with dial-up.
2/ I requires the userlogin and password to entered every time.
3/ There is no firewall - disaster if you use Windows.

So throw it and replace with a proper adsl modem / router with firewall 
(most do have it) and you will wonder why you ever used that USB modem.

If your provider provides the modem for free then get on to them and 
tell that you have new computer with Vista and they will now send you an 
ethernet connected modem and of course the user id and broadband 
password is stored in the modem in flash.

Because of Vista the ISPs no longer give you a usb connected modem, it 
can't work with Vista.

Once you have ethernet then you can connect freely any computer.

Desmond.