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Paul Evans <paul@paulwork.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:391CF900.14D4D9F@paulwork.demon.co.uk...

> ADSL trial finally turned up on Tuesday. I have reconfigured my small
> network of Linux and some Win95 machines to work fine
>
> Instructions are useless but essentially the router is happy if you
> create a netwrok on 192.168.254.x. It does DHCP for you (but that does
> not seem to be configurable). I had to reconfigure all my machines
> because I was previously using the address range of 192.168.1.x
>
> I will try to get the Helpdesk to tell me whether the DHCP and DNS in
> the router can be configured.
>
> For a single machine you should be fine with an ethernet ard and a
> crossover cable.

So the Demon trial is not using the same as BTopenworld? (They're
offering a USB adsl modem)

I've been looking at it (BT offering) today, it's a usb adsl modem but
seems to be otherwise a standard tcp/ip setup.

So...

Although they say it's single user, any reason why (assuming you can
overcome the usb/driver hurdle) you can't just do as per a standard
modem with a linux masqueraded lan setup?

To over come the usb/driver hurdle, maybe you could buy an adsl modem
with an ethernet interface and put the usb one in the spares cupboard?
(Can you buy them? Perhaps from USA? How much?)

I'm not really wanting to rush to ADSL, but I'm getting a second line
and wondering whether to get a simple standard line or to invest in the
ageing technology of isdn/home highway, or (probably) get an ordinary
line now and expect that useable adsl will be along either "real soon
now" or not long after that.

Or maybe see what adsl offerings Demon come up with after their trials
are complete, see whether they're any better than BT e.g. better
equipment (ethernet instead of usb) at comparable price.

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Simon Child