🚀 go-pugleaf

> The cheap one's are just as good - you can even get them for a tenner.

He's right, I got mine from Dabs for about �13 delivered, and have had no
problems - downloading at 50Kb/sec easy.


--
Alistair
www.agr-s.com
Website of Alt.Games.Rainbow-Six

Jeff Taylor wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> Having decided (OK, wife told me) to get a new line for Internet use so
> that people can actually ring us up, I thought that if I'm going to be
> paying 9.25UKP line rental and 10UKP for surftime evening and weekends
> that I might as well pay the extra 14UKP and go for Blueyonder's cable
> modem.
> This will require me getting an ethernet card.

If you are worried, the installers can now stick in a NIC card for you as
per:

http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/info/our_service/system.html

Why do I feel like a spammer :)

I know I'm just trying to help, I should get commission!!




Alex.

-- 
Alex Brown
Webmaster, blueyonder
www.blueyonder.co.uk

On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 08:54:29 GMT, Alex Brown
<alex_brown@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>Jeff Taylor wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Folks,
>> Having decided (OK, wife told me) to get a new line for Internet use so
>> that people can actually ring us up, I thought that if I'm going to be
>> paying 9.25UKP line rental and 10UKP for surftime evening and weekends
>> that I might as well pay the extra 14UKP and go for Blueyonder's cable
>> modem.
>> This will require me getting an ethernet card.
>
>If you are worried, the installers can now stick in a NIC card for you as
>per:
>
>http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/info/our_service/system.html
>
>Why do I feel like a spammer :)
>
>I know I'm just trying to help, I should get commission!!
>
>
>
>
>Alex.

For BY I installed a Netgear FA311.  It works fine.  Cost about 12 UKP
I seem to recall.

For further into you might like to subscribe to uk.telecom.broadband.

Erika Leonard <erika@codology.com> wrote in 
<sc8hat4trjdlo6n4h7elja0vd67pvni50e@4ax.com>:


>For BY I installed a Netgear FA311.  It works fine.  Cost about 12 UKP
>I seem to recall.
>
>For further into you might like to subscribe to uk.telecom.broadband.
>

i have a 311. However, when ever i update policy on our firewall, the FA311 
locks up and crashes my workstation. Nice. Doesn't happen with a 3Com 
card.....

Z.


-- 
Please remove my_pants when replying by email.

Just to back up Richard (as if he needs it) definitely go for an expensive
one if you can justify it. The 3COM's or Intel do a nice 10/100. Cheap ones
are great if they work, the Netgear's are nice cards, the poster didn't say
about which cards BlueYonder were fitting but if they're cheap enough, I
might be inclined to go for one of them, it stops them blaming the hardware
provider. Also keep a close eye his not nicking your RAM :)

Andrew

In article <3AA89A0F.BC59D210@blueyonder.co.uk>, 
alex_brown@blueyonder.co.uk says...

> 
> Why do I feel like a spammer :)

Because you work for an ISP which bounces email to abuse@ and support@ 
and insists that the rest of the Internet use your crappy^Winnovative web 
forms.

Barry
-- 
Project Crosswired
http://www.crosswired.org.uk
Cooperative Colocation in action

Jeff Taylor wrote:
> 
> Having a look at prices on the web, I'm wondering if there's any
> real benefit buying a well-known brand e.g. 3com at 58UKP, as
> opposed to Novatech's similarly specified card at only 17.63UKP.

I was fortunate enough to buy several secondhand (unused) Intel 
NICs a while ago (badged Compaq) and they have all worked 
perfectly in a wide range of machines and OSs.
Arthur

"Jeff Taylor" <jwaynet@lineone.net> wrote in message
news:ouptgIASI$p6EwuP@lineone.net...

> This will require me getting an ethernet card.
> Having a look at prices on the web, I'm wondering if there's any real
> benefit buying a well-known brand e.g. 3com at 58UKP, as opposed to
> Novatech's similarly specified card at only 17.63UKP.
> Any thoughts gratefully received,

I would never pay �58 for a NIC, it simply ain't worth the money, especially
since you can buy three cheaper ones for that money - at least one of them
ought to work :-)

The best NIC I've ever had is my Realtek 8139 based card, which I aquired
free from Realtek in Taiwan (quoted value for customs $9.99). It works with
all O/Ss and in every setup I've tried. Avoid older Realtek chips, though.
They're not the most reliable.

Mark

"Andrew Taylor" <news@thebridlepath.co.uk> wrote in message
news:98adh5$12epe$1@ID-73563.news.dfncis.de...
>. Also keep a close eye his not nicking your RAM :)

nicking it? I thought RAM was coming free with cornflakes these days.

Alistair

Many thanks everyone for all your helpful replies.
Have decided to go for a D-Link DFE-550TX 10/100 card at 20UKP.

Kind Regards, 
-- 
Jeff Taylor

> nicking it? I thought RAM was coming free with cornflakes these days.
>
> Alistair

Yeah, you're right there, 70UKP for good crucial 256MB PC133. I retract my
quip - instead....

Make sure he's not putting some shodddy RAM in there!

Andrew :)

"Andrew Taylor" <news@thebridlepath.co.uk> wrote in message
news:98d0jn$1ci72$1@ID-73563.news.dfncis.de...
> > nicking it? I thought RAM was coming free with cornflakes these days.
> >
> > Alistair
>
> Yeah, you're right there, 70UKP for good crucial 256MB PC133. I retract my
> quip - instead....
>
> Make sure he's not putting some shodddy RAM in there!

Hehe thats more like it, not that I am inferring BY are at all linked with
shoddy work, well maybe the odd shoddy transparent cache :o)

Al

.. and it came to pass that /|ndy |<avanagh 
<andyk@nospam.lofi-gaming.org.uk> uttered forth:
>Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des (ko Sat,
>10
>Mar 2001 10:24:40 +0000), sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
>demon.tech.pc, yawatina tan reek esk Jeff Taylor fornis do marikano es
>bono
>tan el:
>>Many thanks everyone for all your helpful replies.
>>Have decided to go for a D-Link DFE-550TX 10/100 card at 20UKP.
>
>Good choice - 170 machines at work can't be wrong!

70 machines at work can - they're running Winderz systems.
-- 

"Dungeon" Dave, in anti-harvest mode...

From: abuse@yahoo.com
From: abuse@btinternet.com
From: *@localhost

You do risk Packet Loss with cheap cards

I have a 3COM Etherlink Complete PC Management card in my PC - �45 it cost

However, I do have a 10BaseT Card and a Switchable 10/100BaseT card in my
Linux Box


"Jeff Taylor" <jwaynet@lineone.net> wrote in message
news:ouptgIASI$p6EwuP@lineone.net...
> Hi Folks,
> Having decided (OK, wife told me) to get a new line for Internet use so
> that people can actually ring us up, I thought that if I'm going to be
> paying 9.25UKP line rental and 10UKP for surftime evening and weekends
> that I might as well pay the extra 14UKP and go for Blueyonder's cable
> modem.
> This will require me getting an ethernet card.
> Having a look at prices on the web, I'm wondering if there's any real
> benefit buying a well-known brand e.g. 3com at 58UKP, as opposed to
> Novatech's similarly specified card at only 17.63UKP.
> Any thoughts gratefully received,
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Jeff Taylor

How about a Free Cable Connection then Alex ;)

Cable Guy

"Alex Brown" <alex_brown@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3AA89A0F.BC59D210@blueyonder.co.uk...
> Jeff Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> > Having decided (OK, wife told me) to get a new line for Internet use so
> > that people can actually ring us up, I thought that if I'm going to be
> > paying 9.25UKP line rental and 10UKP for surftime evening and weekends
> > that I might as well pay the extra 14UKP and go for Blueyonder's cable
> > modem.
> > This will require me getting an ethernet card.
>
> If you are worried, the installers can now stick in a NIC card for you as
> per:
>
> http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/info/our_service/system.html
>
> Why do I feel like a spammer :)
>
> I know I'm just trying to help, I should get commission!!
>
>
>
>
> Alex.
>
> --
> Alex Brown
> Webmaster, blueyonder
> www.blueyonder.co.uk