Hello Anne, Bascule and Derek (in alphabetical order!!!) Thank you very much for your replies and all the detailed information you have given me. I really do appreciate it, as broadband is completely "uncharted territory" for me. What an excellent and helpful list this is.
I have had some jobs to do in the house this morning, but this afternon I will try to have a session at getting broadband set up (hopefully!) To comment on certain points you have all raised. Anne, thank you also for the offer of helping me if I have SMC settings trouble. I hope that I won't, but will contact you if I do. My ISP has given me some settings to use. I didn't mention it in my original posting, but the PCI card manual says that the set-up CD must be run *before* the card is installed. So I wondered if Mandrake would find the card, but then I would have to unplug the card again, run SMC's Windows installation program and then plug the card back in, before I could use it with Windows. Very complicated. That is why I asked about setting it up in Windows first. Bascule, you say that you will be gobsmacked if I have any problems. Knowing my luck, I will be gobsmacked if I don't! Derek, I thought about the ebuyer router, but wondered if it worked well with Linux. It probably did, but I didn't want to risk it and decided on the SMC which is known to work. The changeover needs to be as painless as possible. I have got some microfilters, but thanks for mentioning them. I hope that I won't need to buy a crossover cable, as the nearest PC World is a 30 minute car ride away. We only have one computer shop round here, and I would rather not comment on it. I went in once! Thank you all again for all the help. Cheers Keith
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