And when ADSL comes to Norwich, I'll just bet whoever is offering ADSL services in the area will be using the USB Speedtouch modems. Mandrake 8.0 pretty much supports these straight out of the box, with the only exception is the download of the management application. I even remember there being a PPPoATM PPPd daemon included :)
All other distributions will require the relavent kernel patches, the PPPoATM patch for PPPd and the management application.
Mind you, when it all works together, it's a marvellous thing to behold :)
Regards,
Martyn
-----Original Message----- From: alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk [mailto:alug-admin@stu.uea.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Adam Bower Sent: 12 June 2001 11:40 To: Joss Winn Cc: Andrew Savory; alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] online services in Norwich question
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Joss Winn wrote:
So is this BT deal, just a 56k dialup? Has 128K ISDN taken off in the UK? It's all the rage here in Japan.
I havn't heard of any FRIACO ISP's that allow 128k ISDN? is this now available?, there are now other FRIACO deals where some ISP's are allocating a fixed amount of time online for a fixed fee. This is what I am using at the moment and I don't get kicked after 2 hours (but I havn't found out what happens if I use more than my allocated time yet).
If you are in a NTL Cable serviced area and want cable tv and take NTL's package you should automagically get two telephone lines and free dial-up with NTL World, this would give you a 2 hour kick off but I do know someone at work who is using this with automatic recconection for over a year to get free 24/7 access. I don't know if this applys in Norwich though as it is an old C&W serviced area, although the Digital tv has just been launched there which means Cable Modems should not be to far behind.
Oh yeah and if NTL release Cable modems in Norwich you will probably find BT will magically offer ADSL about a week after launch, and the reverse of that statement is also probably true. :)
hmm, still seems dial-up in the UK isn't cheap, you just pay loads upfront now for a fixed time online...
Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam
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