[YLUG] DSL

[Stephen Patterson]

On 24 Sep 07, Dr P Dupre (pd520 at york.ac.uk) wrote:
> I got a cable modem which looks like working fine, the led is on.
> Then, I should configure the network.
> Should I do is at an ethernet connection or a xDSL, or a Modem connection ?
> In the US, I used to say xDSL connection, but then I need a login
> name and a password which were provided by the provider B!! Vigin sent me a 
> PIN and a Surname, does it have
> something to do together ?
> Looking around, it looks that that I may have first to log as
> a "standard" ethernet connection and get an IP address with DHCP
> and then go a/the virgin web site for registrering, maybe 80.5.178.26 ?

signup.virginmedia.net IIRC  (just got mine installed a few weels ago)

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