[SWLUG] Speedtouch USB modems.

[peter]

Daniel Barbato wrote:

> I had quite a few issues with this modem under gentoo. It seems to 
> behave quite well under Ubuntu warty. However if you can afford to 
> splash out on an ADSL with NAT router (and possibly wifi) you might 
> find it worth while, esp if you have more than one system.
>
> I always found that internet connection coming in over ethernet was 
> easier to handle than USB (NTL and Uni halls are prime examples of 
> something that is 100x easier to deal with than USB ADSL under 
> different flavours of linux).

I agree with that.  I never got my speedtouch modem to work with SuSE 
9.1, so I bought a router and had it set up in about 10 minutes (after 
making all the connections, of course).  And since it's a wireless 
router, it works for my wife's laptop as well.

HTH

Peter