[Wolves] ADSL or cable broadband?

[Matthew Revell]

Old Dan wrote:


> Other people's mileage may vary on that, though.  It is merely my 
> personal (probably quite limited) experience.  I'm just looking 
> forward to ADSL 1Mb.  Mmmmm.....  :)
>
Another good thing about BY is that you can upgrade/downgrade your 
service for just a month, and you only pay the extra subs fee, no 
regrade fees.

>> I've already got my own hardware, for ADSL. I may have to rethink, 
>> tho', and buy a combined ADSL router/modem/wireless unit. Really, I 
>> want something that handles all the log in and then just gives me a 
>> pure ethernet connection to put into the rest of the network.
>
> Smoothwall will do /precisely/ that.  Really.  You'd have to get a 
> router for BY anyway, if you think about it.
>
Oh, that's the other thing, I already a wireless/4-port router that 
works with BY. I'm quite interested in Smoothwall, tho', mainly because 
I seem to be the only person in the LUG not already running it :)


> ...and smoothie would be cheaper as you'd just have to get hold of an 
> old machine from somewhere (I hear what would have been Angel 2 is 
> available ATM :) )
>
Really? :)

> You /can/ register more than one MAC with BY but only one can access 
> the internet at a time (at least with the connection I used - back 
> when I was living with $FOLKS, and I've also tried it more recently on 
> a machine owned by a friend of mine)
>
I've tried running more than one MAC on the connection at once, and it 
doesn't work.

Cheers,

Matt.