DSL Modem/Router wanted
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Tue Jan 25 10:04:15 CST 2005
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:33 am, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> What is the brand of the modem? It may be supported by the IPCop firewall
> distro. IPCop is used in the US and in Europe and they have some fixes
> added for specific modems. You would just have to use an old PC that has
> USB on it.
Trying to remotely build a new PC with firewall just to support a stupid USB
modem isn't a good idea. What I need is something that will connect to the
existing, working Ethernet card.
We had some new clothing that was a Christmas gift shipped there, and the
import duties were about 30%. The town we're in is _very_ rural. Think
middle o' Kansas. More cows than computers.
I have a couple of PII 400's there that could be built into firewalls, but no
monitors for them - I was going to use an ATI All-in-Wonder and a TV, but I
found out that it's not easy to get the TV-Out working, let alone make it the
primary video.
My wife is a Microbiologist. She's no dummy, but building computers is not
her thing. What she has is an older, pre-USB IBM laptop with Windows98 and
Mandrake 9.x on it, and a working ethernet card.
Local phone calls in the U.K., including calls to a dial-up ISP, are usually
charged at 5¢/minute - one of the ways British Telecom tries to clamp down on
the competition.
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