Much has been written on this thread about,
Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem
Netgear DM602 router/modem
but a preliminary search on some uk suppliers this afternoon suggests
the Netgear DM602 router/modem is no longer available here in the uk.
The model most often suggested is the,
NETGEAR DG834
On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 18:35, John Richard Smith wrote:
Much has been written on this thread about,
Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem
Netgear DM602 router/modem
but a preliminary search on some uk suppliers this afternoon suggests
the Netgear DM602 router/modem is no longer available here in
On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 4:35 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Of course this equipement isn't only a router/modem but also a 4 port
10/100 LAN switch. I could just about cope with a 4port put this
leaves me with no room for expansion.
I already have a DES1008D 8 port D-link . Is it then possible
PM wrote:
On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 18:35, John Richard Smith wrote:
Much has been written on this thread about,
Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem
Netgear DM602 router/modem
but a preliminary search on some uk suppliers this afternoon suggests
the Netgear DM602 router/modem is no longer available here
On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 20:31, Margot wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
OK then I bow to experience.
Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC
still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers to,
Margot wrote:
I've managed to track down what looks to be an ethical and
reasonably-priced Broadband provider - www.thephone.coop - they assure
me that their service will work with Linux (and their tech support
didn't scream in horror when I asked!).
They don't supply a modem. Can anyone
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband
On Thursday 02 September 2004 02:31 pm, Margot wrote:
Bryan Phinney
Aron Smith wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 04:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Aron Smith wrote:
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So then I need to network my other computers via this 8-pot 10/100Mbps
switch DES-1008D, the so called D-Link, that is not so easy ?
from each computer run the D-Link software
Tony S. Sykes wrote:
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Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 9:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband
On Thursday 02 September 2004 02:31 pm, Margot wrote:
Bryan
On Friday 03 September 2004 04:14, Margot wrote:
Margot wrote:
snip
Can anyone recommend any books or online resources on
hardware? VERY basic level please - along the lines of 'how
not to ruin a perfectly good computer by sticking a
screwdriver in the wrong place'!
Many thanks to all who
On Friday 03 September 2004 05:14 am, Margot wrote:
lotsa snipping
I need to develop some hardware expertise. I've signed up with the
local Adult Education Centre for 2 short courses designed for
hardware 'newbies' - one on PC Upgrade and one on Home Networking.
Good plan.
By December, I
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 23:02, Margot wrote:
I've managed to track down what looks to be an ethical and
reasonably-priced Broadband provider - www.thephone.coop - they
assure me that their service will work with Linux (and their tech
support didn't scream in horror when I asked!).
They
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem as well
as the Netgear DM602 router/modem.
Personally, I would go for the Netgear if I were you, it will hook up to your ethernet
card and
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 02:22, Margot wrote:
Richard Urwin wrote:
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 11:55 pm, flesh.99 wrote:
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:40:17 -0400, Bryan Phinney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
They don't supply a modem. Can anyone
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:46, John Richard Smith wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem as well
as the Netgear DM602 router/modem.
Personally, I would go for the
PM wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:46, John Richard Smith wrote:
But that means you must have a fully configured ethernet card to go with
your choice of the Netgear DM602 router/modem, doesn't it ?
John
I bought the first/cheapest and had no problems - turned out to have a
RealTek
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 13:29, John Richard Smith wrote:
PM wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:46, John Richard Smith wrote:
But that means you must have a fully configured ethernet card to go with
your choice of the Netgear DM602 router/modem, doesn't it ?
John
I bought
On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem
as well as the Netgear DM602 router/modem.
Personally, I would go
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 12:49, PM wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 02:22, Margot wrote:
Richard Urwin wrote:
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 11:55 pm, flesh.99 wrote:
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:40:17 -0400, Bryan Phinney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot
On Thursday 02 September 2004 06:29 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Do you mean to say that the system itself only had to recognise the
ethonet card for the router/modem to work, you didn't have to spend
hours and hours in badly documented procedural to get the ethonet card
configured properly
Aron Smith wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem
as well as the Netgear DM602 router/modem.
Personally,
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:54, John Richard Smith wrote:
Aron Smith wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch
PM wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:54, John Richard Smith wrote:
Aron Smith wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
According to their web page, they support
On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Aron Smith wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330
On Thursday 02 September 2004 06:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
PM wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:54, John Richard Smith wrote:
Aron Smith wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
OK then I bow to experience.
Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC
still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers to, and without
those answers it don't work. Of course that is trying to
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
OK then I bow to experience.
Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC
still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers to, and without
those answers it don't work. Of
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Richard Smith
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 4:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am
On Thursday 02 September 2004 11:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
I see , dynamic host control protocol DHCP, is actually built into the
router/modem itself and as such knows how to set istelf up dynamically.
I didn't understand that, and couldn't see how it was gonna be done by
MCC, without
Bryan Phinney wrote:
Since the router/modem is equivalent to any other type of ethernet connection, you
would hook it up and configure it exactly the same way you would to any other router,
right? Assuming that you are using the Dlink device now, hooking it up to the
broadband modem as opposed
On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:24 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
I see, so the D-ling is the switch that just about everything gets
plugged into. Now that I've taken a second look at the diagramme on the
back of the D-Link box it shows that the modem, in your suggested case,
the router/modem
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 22:19, Aron Smith wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 10:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
I don't have this actually working yet , been waiting until affordable
decent quality broadband comes into use in UK. Everything takes for ever
in UK. They never market for the
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 22:31, Margot wrote:
Right now, I can afford the broadband service plus the USB modem.
I'd have to save up for another 2-3 months to go for the other
option. I'd appreciate your opinion on this - will the ease of use
of the ethernet option be worth the wait and the
SNIP
As I said in my original message, I need a solution that doesn't
involve screwdrivers - not just because I'm a girl (!) but I have ME
- the combination of brainfog plus physical limitations means that
installing anything that involves taking the case off the box is
beyond my
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 00:05, Derek Jennings wrote:
Margot
I can confirm the Alcatel Speedtouch does work with Mandrake.
I do not have one myself, but I have set one up for a friend.
It IS more complicated to get a USB Speedtouch working than a DSL router, but
it is certainly possible to
On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 9:33 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
... Paul and Bryan are givin you the best advice. Which is why
I've stayed out of this till now. https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/
I try not to do this, but me too. Get an ethernet ADSL router that is
firewall configured out of the box, (unless
On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 3:07 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Aron Smith wrote:
MCC will configure your card real nice
When you say configured, that is as a card recognised by the systen
and a device to be used by the system,
On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 10:10 pm, PM wrote:
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 00:05, Derek Jennings wrote:
Margot
I can confirm the Alcatel Speedtouch does work with Mandrake.
I do not have one myself, but I have set one up for a friend.
It IS more complicated to get a USB Speedtouch working than a
On Thursday 02 September 2004 22:10, PM wrote:
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 00:05, Derek Jennings wrote:
Margot
I can confirm the Alcatel Speedtouch does work with Mandrake.
I do not have one myself, but I have set one up for a friend.
It IS more complicated to get a USB Speedtouch working
On Thursday 02 September 2004 03:31 pm, Margot wrote:
We seem to be drifting a bit here...
As I said in my original message, I need a solution that doesn't
involve screwdrivers - not just because I'm a girl (!) but I have ME
- the combination of brainfog plus physical limitations means that
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 23:02, Margot wrote:
I've managed to track down what looks to be an ethical and
reasonably-priced Broadband provider - www.thephone.coop - they
assure me that their service will work with Linux (and their tech
support didn't scream in horror when I asked!).
They
Margot wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm currently with Wanadoo for my
dialup and I'm keen to leave them as soon as possible because I'm in
the middle of a major row with them - they recently introduced spam
filtering, and it is complete chaos - legitimate mail is not only
being marked
Aron Smith wrote:
.
So then I need to network my other computers via this 8-pot 10/100Mbps
switch DES-1008D, the so called D-Link, that is not so easy ?
from each computer run the D-Link software ez as pi
John
Aron you got me there , whats with, D-Link software ez as pi ?
John
Margot wrote:
We seem to be drifting a bit here...
As I said in my original message, I need a solution that doesn't
involve screwdrivers - not just because I'm a girl (!) but I have ME -
the combination of brainfog plus physical limitations means that
installing anything that involves taking
On Thursday 02 September 2004 02:19 pm, Richard Urwin wrote:
On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 3:07 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Aron Smith wrote:
MCC will configure your card real nice
When you say configured, that is as a card
On Thursday 02 September 2004 04:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Aron Smith wrote:
.
So then I need to network my other computers via this 8-pot 10/100Mbps
switch DES-1008D, the so called D-Link, that is not so easy ?
from each computer run the D-Link software ez as pi
John
Aron
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
They don't supply a modem. Can anyone recommend one which will
definitely work with Mandrake 10 (and with Win 98SE, as I'm now dual
booting)? Preferably an external one, as I'm not confident with
screwdrivers! Or, are there any I should
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:40:17 -0400, Bryan Phinney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
They don't supply a modem. Can anyone recommend one which will
definitely work with Mandrake 10 (and with Win 98SE, as I'm now dual
booting)? Preferably an
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 11:55 pm, flesh.99 wrote:
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:40:17 -0400, Bryan Phinney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
They don't supply a modem. Can anyone recommend one which will
definitely work with Mandrake 10 (and with
Richard Urwin wrote:
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 11:55 pm, flesh.99 wrote:
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:40:17 -0400, Bryan Phinney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
They don't supply a modem. Can anyone recommend one which will
definitely work with Mandrake 10
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 04:22 pm, Margot wrote:
Richard Urwin wrote:
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 11:55 pm, flesh.99 wrote:
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:40:17 -0400, Bryan Phinney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:
They don't supply a modem. Can
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