[Wylug-help] ADSL interfaces for Linux

David Pashley wylug-help at davidpashley.com
Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:40:09 +0000


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On Tuesday 05 November 2002 12:26 pm, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:20, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 11:08, David Pashley wrote:
> > > One thing I can not stress enough, is to not get the serive from BT
> > > OpenWorld. Use an ISP with a clue.
> >
> > Seconded. And not Pipex, either. They never answer the phone, AFAICT.
>
> Any positive comments re ADSL ISPs?
>
> Otherwise I'd start with a short list of mailbox & demon (oddly they
> don't seem to do SMTP on low end DSL), and work round...
>

I keep hearing good things about demon. YMMV.

As for devices, I would recommend that you get an external router jobby with
ethernet out, as I wouldn't trust a USB or PCI device to have linux drivers.

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David Pashley
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