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Simon Child <simon.child@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 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)

All the trials are being done using an ethernet connected setup.

AFAIK the USB system has not been trialed at all.

> 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.

Not sure where you get that idea from the BT website is rather
devoid of information on the ISP side. (Whereas there is a reasonable
amoount of information on the actual line.)

> 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?

The problem is that no-one knows how high the "hurdle" is set.
Since the USB setup has never been trialed no-one knows how easy
this would be.

Of course there is a very obvious way in which BT could be
helpful here. (Assuming they have installed the relevent 
equiptment in Swansea.)

There is also the issue of the BT installer getting in a sulk if
they don't have a Win98 machine to mess arround with :)

> 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?

Effectivly you'd be messing with BT's side of the network, which
they get upset about.

> (Can you buy them? Perhaps from USA? How much?)

Do not even think about importing anything telecoms related across
the atlantic. They do things differently from the rest of the world
over there :) i.e. it's unlikely to work anyway.