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

[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 :)