From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 15 16:10:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E300837B65D for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13401; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:40:19 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <006d01c0974c$e9a02870$0100a8c0@warhawk> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:40:18 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Haikal Saadh Subject: Re: Broadband downunder Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Stephen McKay , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , David Scheidt Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 15-Feb-01 Haikal Saadh wrote: > Hardware compatability should not be an issue, should it? It's just a black > box that plugs into an ethernet card? And in the case of cable modems all > DOCSIS modems are equal, right? All the sites I've come across have a fair Bzzat :-( Some providers use USB DSL modems which may or may not have drivers.. eg British Telecom provides the cheaper USB DSL modem and if you want ethernet you need to pay extra. AFAIK Telstra provide a ethernet connection. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message