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When I came to Wellington I had to say goodbye to my cable modem and
embrace ADSL. I joined plusnet, on a friend's recommendation, and they
provided the connection and a Binatone ADSL 500 USB modem. The Binatone
website says that a Linux driver is included on the CD. It didn't work
for me and after tweaking it a bit I asked the plusnet forum and learned
that this driver worked for Red Hat 7 and has not worked since, and moreover that this fact is well-known in the plusnet community (but not
in the setup guides). The plusnet guru advised me to forget about USB
modems altogether and go for ethernet. So I bought a D-Link ethernet modem
(it has a firewall and does NAT so it's a router really).
Good advice, but for windows too. USB modems are flaky, cheap and nasty imo. The speedtouch 330 I got with one of my eclipse accounts crashed any computer it was connected to that had a via chipset (turns out it needs more power than via will give it, but I didn't know that before).
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