On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:24:56PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
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?
We went ADSL live recently (May 18th to be exact), the dates predicted by BT were just about spot on by the way, no delays.
I've got a Metronet broadband account, 1Mb/s and the cost varies according to how much you download. Minimum cost is around £13/month and it's capped at around £25/month however much you download. It's been rock solid ever since it went live too.