On 17-Jun-05 Tim Green wrote:
On 6/17/05, Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
Now I'm expecting to be asking you folks for advice on setting up ADSL/SDSL on Linux!
Congratulations on getting closer to broadband!
If you get an ethernet 'DSL router then setup is a cinch. Just set your PC's ethernet card to use DHCP.
Good luck! Tim.
That looks like good news! However, I'm a little bit wary about the hardware side. My exhcange (Brandon creek) is a BT exchange, BT will be doing the upgrade, and it's a BT line. When I look on the BT website at their broadband options (and I think their 2Mbits/15GBperMonth is probably what would best suit my likely usage) I see that they supply their own modem router (free if you buy your broadband sub online they say). So two questions: a) Will a BT broadband connection only work with a BT modem/router? If so, what's the score on connecting it to a Linux machine and getting it to work (implicitly: is it Linux-compatible)? b) If, on the other hand, BT's is not Linux-compatible, but one can buy a different one which is BT-compatible, which ones will work most smoothly with BT and are Linux-compatible? Thanks for any info! Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 17-Jun-05 Time: 19:24:50 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------