On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 06:54:19PM +0530, Bharat Shetty wrote: > > I got an Airtel Broad band connection soon as I switched to Bangalore. > Pretty solid plans they have got. But there is little hilch. > > They have provided me an ADSL USB modem with following specs: > > ZyXEL 630-C1 aka OMNI ADSL USB (Annex A) Equivalent of 0572:cb00 ( > Prestige 630-C1 ). > I too have Airtel boradband connection. But, prior experience, showed that getting USB modem to work under Linux was royal pain. Ask them to give you an ethernet modem. It works smoothly. That is my set up.
The other alternative is to get a router from them But it is Rs. 100
more than the modem.
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