On Friday 17 June 2005 20:50, Tim Green wrote:
On 6/17/05, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk 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!
If you get an ethernet 'DSL router then setup is a cinch. Just set your PC's ethernet card to use DHCP.
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.
Sounds normal.
Do not use BT as your broadband ISP! I'd still recommend Eclipse over them. BT will monkey with the exchange, and you sign up with an ISP and install the micro-filters and the ADSL modem (they all plug into obvious phone style sockets so you shouldn't need an engineer to visit your house, unless like me you need the ISDN taken out first).
I'm with Zen Internet - http://www.zen.co.uk/ - and haven't got a bad word to say about them. When you call support you get straight through, and the person at the end of the line is a real techie. They're support staff will discuss Linux without batting an eyelid - not of that "We don't support Linux" thing.
Not sure if they're the cheapest, but I reckon I've had about 1-2 hours downtime in about 2 years.
Matt