On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:22:04AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 22:11, IanBell wrote:
Broadband seems finaly to have arrived at my small coastal village. I have a Dell laptop with an Ethernet port and no network. Assuming I go for a wires only package, what is the most suitable hardware?
Don't even bother with the USB ADSL modems unless you like spending hours messing with hotplug scripts, buggy black box drivers, unstable hardware etc etc...
Get yourself a Broadband router. You shouldn't have to spend that much. Only a
Funny thing is that I used to use an Alcatel Frog on my Linux box and it was great, I recently replaced it with what was regarded as a good router (Netgear DG834G) and had lots of problems, and at one point the router was almost sent back for a refund. So usb adsl modems are not all bad :)
Ok, other thing beware of the Netgear DG834G I had problems with it crashing often needing a power cycle at the wall, after trying 4 different firmware versions I have now found a stable one but it is labelled "beta" there is another firmware been made available after this one but I am bit wary of trying it and reintroducing problems. Don't get me wrong, its great when it works, but it may take some time to get running nicely but then that seems this is the case for many of these ADSL routers.
Adam