BROADBAND!

[ciphergoth]

Ladies and gentlemen, I have broadband to my flat.

Hopefully this means you'll start virtually seeing something of me again...

see many of you at Whitby!

Comments

[pavlos.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[babysimon]

Please remember to leave the flat occasionally.

Worried about how much this will happen when we get broadband...

Modern life is a wonderful thing

[bondagewoodelf.livejournal.com]

Soon, you will wonder how you were ever able to live there without having had broadband *grin*

Re: Modern life is a wonderful thing

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Er, I've been wondering that since I moved in - I had broadband in my two previous flats. I moved in two weeks ago, ordered broadband on the Monday, it got switched on the following Monday, and since then I've been trying to make time to make my weird-ass PCI ADSL modem work under Linux...

I feel whole again.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Am willing to offer considerable recompensation to anyone who can tell me how the nuts I go about getting broadband in my flat!

So far I see:
Windows: give BT some money, they send you stuff, plug it in, run a cd, BINGO!
Linux: something about a router and a DCHP and a a a firewall or something and quite frankly I AM CONFUSED.

[zotz]

It's not that you need a more complex setup to use ADSL under Linux, it's just that people who use Linux tend to have more complex setups anyway. The first approach is perfectly valid under either OS (except that the CD you get your software on won't come from BT).

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

BT are bad and evil people (or at the very least, hideously incompetent), don't give them money for ADSL unless there are no alternative suppliers in your area. I've found Pipex quite reliable out here in the sticks, but ymmv.

Linux ADSL is a matter of installing a bit of freely downloadable software and then putting your username and password into a file somewhere. Unless you actually want to go the house-LAN-with-firewall route, you don't have to - it's not a bad idea to put some kind of security on a broadband connection though.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Depends how much you want to spend on hardware. I'll try and help with this when I have time...

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I'd hate to distract you from yer bonkingspending time with yr partners :)

[ladycat.livejournal.com]

Ooo, fancy a visitor? Purely on the 'haven't seen you for ages' level of course ;p

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Wow, if broadband attracts visitors of such high caliber as yourself I'm even happier I have it! When would you like to come over? If it's pre-Whitby you'll be welcome to use the broadband but you'll find me in too much of a pre-Whitby faff to be very hostly...

[ladycat.livejournal.com]

Pre Whitby? Is there such a thing as life before Whitby? I'm busily having far too much of a trauma for socialising, but afterwards it would be rather nice to see you.

There's been chatter about a schedule of rolling dinner parties (each of us hosting a dinner party, not parties where we roll around whilst eating dinner, although I have heard interesting tales of events that finish in that fashion...), do you fancy being involved?

I'm sure we'll make time for a natter at Whitby to sort it all out :)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Okay...either
a) St Pervertia ever didn't have broadband, and the constant load of two people geeking was actually running through dialup, which means you either had bloody good dialup or I've underestimated the patience of the geeks concerned by a factor fo ten million, or
b) You're not talking about St Pervertia.
[enter complete confusion, stage left]

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

He moved into his own place.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. I must have either not noticed or more likely forgotten :/
Hurray for broadband!

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Welcome back to the real world... ignore those tree things outside, they're just a distractionary tactic by evil nature, trying to lure you back away from the all-encompassing Internet. :)

Did you check for broadband capability before you moved, or is that not really an issue in London? I've been wondering how long it will be before estate agents sheets for properties will include broadband status as part of the standard information about a potential purchase.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

The estate agent told me that ADSL had been present previously - and the microfilter fitted to the wall backed that up...