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Re: Homehighway

#340
From: Will van Zwanenberg
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:00
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[isdn cards for Macs]

> 
> So surely the problem is that nobody other than 4-Sight or Hermstead has
> written an ISDN PCI driver for Macs???
> 
> > > Does anyone know where I can get an ISDN card for a Mac, suitable for use
> > > with Homehighway, at a sensible price?
> > 
> > AFAIK, no such thing exists. I too have beewn trawlling around trying to
> > find a reasonably priced card but currently such a thing doesn't exist.
> 
> What about the TCP/IP Ethernet/ISDN routers that are advertised around
> the 200-300 quid mark?
> 
> A Mac has no trouble talking IP to a PC over Ethernet, so a net router
> *should* work...

I hadn't thought of that ... It might just work. Bloody long winded way of
doing it though :-(

Why oh why aren't there more menaufacturers producing cards for the Mac.
Why haven't 3Com or Farallon produced one for example?
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From: REMOVE_THIS_will@willz.demon.co.uk (Will van Zwanenberg)
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Date: 1998/09/21
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