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Ben Goodger wrote: > On 28/06/06, *Rob Beard* <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Ben Goodger wrote: > > On 28/06/06, *Rob Beard* <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > <mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote: > > > > Simon Waters wrote: > > > Adrian Midgley wrote: > > > > > >> Rural? > > >> > > > > > > >From what I recall of our trip to Goonhilly, it doesn't get > > much more > > > rural than Goonhilly. > > > > > > I assume speeds in excess of 2Mbps are available to those > close > > enough > > > to the exchanges, EVEN in Cornwall. 2Mbps - tsck - DCGLUG > > members living > > > in the first quarter of 2006 still ;) > > > > > LOL, some of us poor lot are stuck on a 12 month contract > with AOL - I > > blame my girlfriend for that one! > > > > > > How the hell did you get AOL working with Linux? It took me three > > months to give up! > > > Just used a router. > > At first I used a Thompson SpeedTouch 510v4, but now I'm using a > Netgear > wireless ADSL router. > > The way of doing it was to dump the awful AOL software and get the > router to login to AOL directly using the username: > screenname@xxxxxxx <mailto:screenname@xxxxxxx> > > Thats the thing that wasn't very well documented. You couldn't just > enter your screen name in the username box, you needed the > @aol.com <http://aol.com> at > the end. AOL tech support were actually fairly helpful in giving out > that information. > > > *screams* I did that! I did everything! I even tried it with three > different routers! Five distros! None worked at all for anything more > complicated than HTTP! Not sure then. The AOL broadband product is a plain old DSL product (when using a BT line anyway, not sure if anything specific is needed for the NTL version). Do you still have AOL? Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html