I'd rather go for an internal PCI ADSL modem as frakly - I done want ANOTHER
damn cable lying round the back of my pc.
But if a USB one would be in any way better - I'll go for one.
Any suggestions?
Cheers
Doug
THE DAN HAS SPOKEN ( in vroc)
PCI recommended so far.
Doug
Have you thought about getting a router? I got one from dabs.com for about
70. It makes life easy if you have more than 1 PC. You can either get a 1
port version and a seperate hub or a 4 port version (about 10 dearer). The
only problem it has is that assigning forwarding ports is a pain and it
limits you to 20 ports (VERY RESTRICTIVE). Hopefully they will address this
in a new firmware upgrade.
All the best,
Ash
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
PS. hows that radical coming along
For now it'll be 99% just 1 pc using it - and I can what ICS on when the
other machine down my network needs it!
Dont ask - dipping into it from time to time - but CHRIST I'm having wierd
trouble with patches making some faces kinked etc
Doug
This particular router can be used as either USB or a "proper" router, so it
could make it future proof. But your right, if your not ever going to use
it, simple ICS should do the trick.
Yeah, my girlfriend is having similar problems with her TT - a few creases
when welding, but she is only learning :)
Good Luck
Ash
http://www.siroccoracing.com
DAMN YOU - my missus is an authorware developer :D
Doug
Its a pretty impressive model for her first go, I'll show a few pictures
when it is "finished" (they are never finished are they!!).
Ash
http://www.siroccoracing.com
:P
Doug
> I was thinking of switching to Nildram.co.uk as they are the ISP behind
> jolt.co.uk, so they are fairly *** based. But, BT has come on leaps and
> bounds lately and I am happy to stay where I am in the meantime.
Kev
BTW I've got one of those standard BT alcatel USB green squid modem
things. No probs at all.
(I know the inexpensive NAT devices technically aren't considered a firewall
but
they do a pretty good job for home broadband use.)
> > Getting the BT line in my house turned on in the next few days - and
> > probably going to be using Plusnet as my ADSL provider ( any better
***
> > ISP suggestions)
> > I'd rather go for an internal PCI ADSL modem as frakly - I done want
> ANOTHER
> > damn cable lying round the back of my pc.
> > But if a USB one would be in any way better - I'll go for one.
> > Any suggestions?
> > Cheers
> > Doug
www.dslwarehouse.co.uk I got a creative internal PCI modem and it works
great, uses about 3% of CPU time on a slow CPU, doesn't even use 1% on my
1.4ghz Athlon...
I use Pipex for my provider, fast, 576 down, 288 up... regularly getting
downloads of 75k/s and uploading at an average of 30k/s.
Can't argue for 24 a month, especially as ISP's like freeserve are lowering
bandwidth on 56k modems, to try to get people to move over onto broadband...
they convinced me to, so I did, just not with them :o)
H
The best ones are Ethernet based... IMHO.
--KC
> > Getting the BT line in my house turned on in the next few days - and
> > probably going to be using Plusnet as my ADSL provider ( any better
> ***
> > ISP suggestions)
> > I'd rather go for an internal PCI ADSL modem as frakly - I done want
> ANOTHER
> > damn cable lying round the back of my pc.
> > But if a USB one would be in any way better - I'll go for one.
> The best ones are Ethernet based... IMHO.
> --KC
