🚀 go-pugleaf

Mark Evans (mpe@anacon.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
: > In article <2000May1.212811.3198@jsm-net.demon.co.uk>, James Murray
: > <jsm@jsm-net.demon.co.uk> writes
: >>In article <956706153.20018.0.nnrp-12.9e9873a0@news.demon.co.uk> "lesstif" 
: >><lesstif@hotmail.com> writes:
: >>>anyone using ADSL trial with linux?
: >>>
: >>>pls post info, pointers, help etc
: >>
: >>I mailed Demon helpdesk to ask about non-Windows /Mac OSes but they weren't
: >>helpful. The FAQ mentions that BT will install a router/modem device which
: >>surely should be configured like any other router, thus you could tell Linux
: >>that it is your default route and off you go?
: >>I'd be interested in using ASDL via Solaris at work but without any helpful
: >>pointers from Demon, I have no intention of installing it.

: > BT the wankers are trying to tie "Home" ADSL to Windoze by supplying a
: > USB product as a modem.

: They are trying to do much the same with their "small business"
: service.

Is it not true that the other end it tied to a Microsoft Portal and that
Microsoft are funding part of the capital cost?

Geoff
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