From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 15 5:44:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bne005m.server-mail.com (bne005m.server-mail.com [202.139.234.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8434837B4EC for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:44:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12469 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2001 13:44:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warhawk) (203.147.160.62) by bne005m.server-mail.com with SMTP; 15 Feb 2001 13:44:21 -0000 Message-ID: <013701c09755$eff37ca0$0100a8c0@warhawk> From: "Haikal Saadh" To: "David Scheidt" , "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" Cc: "Stephen McKay" , References: Subject: Re: Broadband downunder Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 23:47:29 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Scheidt" To: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" Cc: "Haikal Saadh" ; "Stephen McKay" ; Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:10 PM Subject: Re: Broadband downunder > On 15 Feb 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > :"Haikal Saadh" writes: > :> > Shockingly, I had the same experience ordering DSL from Verizon. I was > :> > quite clear that I wasn't a Windows user, and was told that wasn't a > :> > problem, as long as my equipment did IP over ethernet and DHCP. We'll see, > :> > if the hardware ever shows up. > :> Hardware compatability should not be an issue, should it? > : > :I think he meant "shows up" as in "arrives at my doorstep" :) > : > Indeed. I'm not suprised that it will work. I'm suprised that the service > provider admits it. I've been told by more than one dialup provider that > they are incompatabile with anything other than windows. Not just, "We > don't support that", but "It won't work". It's never been true. > Okay, that puts me at ease. But Damn Optus for making you have win9x/NT for them to install on... > -- > dscheidt@tumbolia.com > Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message