Re: [LUG] [Fwd: Superfast internet cafe launches]

[Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Beard wrote:

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


  

Not sure what the problem is but I had a problem with NTL that, basically, required you put a CD in a windows box to configure and 'register' the router. Once that was done then the router behaved like any dhcp router and I could plug a hub into it and everything connected fine but windows boxes were compromised almost immediately so I had to use a linux box as firewall.
So you may have to try (hoch spit) windows first to get it going...
Tom the er.....

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