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Re: [LUG] 2 Questions

 

On Tuesday 08 February 2005 9:37 pm, aaron Moore wrote:
1.  We are moving house to an area where we can only use a dial up
connection.

Move somewhere else?
Ask someone to gazump you?
Forget to sign the contracts?
You have to have a good reason to move AWAY from ADSL - some people on this 
list are still waiting, one or two are getting quite desperate.

We are contracted into BT for the next 9 months.  I remember 
giving up trying to connect a linux box to the internet via a dial up
modem

via an INTERNAL dial-up modem, yes, I can believe your experience of problems. 
via an EXTERNAL dial-up modem - different story entirely. Any ISP except AOL 
will support GNU/Linux via an external dial-up modem because they won't know 
any difference.

, I think because BT is just not compatible. Is that still the case, 
or if it is possible can anyone offer any advice.

http://www.linmodems.org/

2. Even with one of BT's adsl modems

Don't use ADSL modems, use ADSL ROUTERS! Do it all via ethernet - there are NO 
drivers required to use any network-aware OS.

web pages (error message reads 'www.////.com could not be found.

That's DNS. Separate issue and normally available via your ISP.

Again, use an ADSL router (it'll have DNS itself and will pick up the correct 
settings from your ISP.

With dial-up, check the setup guides (the Mac guides are often quite good 
because they include details that Windows guides don't provide).

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