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I've decided to change my ISP from Sympatico to Uniserve |
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& need to check a couple of things re which others may have advice. |
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(1) the best option seems to be to buy a DSL modem: Uniserve offers |
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Zoom x4 ADSL : <= 8 Mbit/s (up 1 Mbit/s ) |
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www.zoom.com/products/adsl_overview.html#5651 : "works w Linux" |
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My understanding is that the kernel talks to the ethernet chip on the mobo, |
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which in turn talks to the DSL modem, so there is no problem |
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of having a DSL modem which Linux cannot work with. Am I correct ? |
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(2) IIRC I'm signed up for Gentoo lists as 'purslow@×××××××××.ca', |
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so it looks as if I will need to resubscribe under the new ISP |
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(I have a reply-to header pointing to my UoT address, |
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but I delete it from e-mails to lists, as it caused problems in the past). |
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Has anyone had other problems in this area I should know about (smile) ? |
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