>service. i'm wondering if any listers have this service or something
>similar and what they thnk about it. is it worth the $45-$50 per month
>charge? any problems running it on a base 2400c?
My brother has R-Runner in Tampa and in spite of some early adopter problems with DHCP and his neighborhood switching box still raves about it.
I've had ADSL for a month and for the week it was actually working, thought it was well worth the 59.99 BellSouth was charging. The increased speed of web browsing and downloads was really nice and I hate being back to a modem again.
The service is dependent on your ethernet software and Appletalk. It worked on my 8500 200mhz so there's no reason I can think of that it wont work on the 2400. An upgrade to 8.6 is adviseable.
Your main obstacle will be how Mac friendly the tech people are. The guy who set mine up was told in his training seminars that "the Mac people will usually figure out how to get it up." On one hand it's that simple, but on the other hand they should have more training than that in case someone (like myself) has disabled all their ethernet system CPs and ext'ns.
As I'm still a little p o'ed about it, I can't close the subject without trashing BellSouth. After waiting over 90 minutes to talk to a tech I found out the morning I called that there were only 5 guys doing ADSL tech help for NINE states. We'll see if Mindspring can do better. . .
Bottom line is go for it while they're still waiving installation and set-up fees.
Best of luck
jpm
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