[NTLUG:Discuss] Very basic DSL questions

[Fred James]

Cheaper but less - Linksys DSL/Cable router/firewall gives you a 100Mbs 
"hub" for your "Intranet" in the bargain - prices vary depending on how 
many ports you buy.

Where I stop recommending Linksys is when you want to do anything 
complex, or run servers, which I don't do at home.


Jason Ferguson wrote:

> I have DSL through SWBell here in Greenville (just moved from Omaha, it
> suprised me I could get DSL _and_ Cable here).
> 
> I was checking into using Coyote Linux, an offshoot of the Linux Router
> Project, on the P75 I bought for $35 at a computer show. However, it's
> beeping at me (long beep, motherboard or power supply, so its probably
> dead). When I created the Coyote disk, I got the following:
> 
> - Firewall
> - DHCP Server
> - Identd Server
> 
> All of this on one floppy (based on kernel 2.2.19). It supports PPPoE as
> well.
> 
> Seems to me a cheap 486 or Pentium box, a bit of memory, a hub, and two NIC
> Cards _might_ be cheaper if you like to trade parts around.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ddaupert at csc.com>
> To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 8:38 AM
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Very basic DSL questions
> 
> 
> 
>>Sorry to be soooo simple, but this is my first time thru, and I'm not yet
>>very network savvy.
>>I've recently been informed I can get DSL in my area (SW Fort Worth) thru
>>SWBell. I've
>>listened to the traffic on this group about August.net closing off to new
>>customers due to
>>SWBell's biz practices, and that doesn't lessen my anxiety much. Anyways,
>>here goes.
>>
>>SWBell has a "special" for $49.+/month, equipment is "free" and the
>>self-installation kit
>>is "free," but only for windows. They'll charge me a couple hundred for a
>>technician
>>installation. Questions: can I just get the self-installation kit, run
>>windows in vmware, do
>>setup, then switch over to linux and configure? Are there any gotchas I
>>need to know about?
>>
>>I hear people talking about static IPs, but I *think* this would only be
>>
> an
> 
>>issue if I were
>>going to run a web server or mail server or whatever, right? I'm not
>>planning on running
>>any servers on my system. It seems to me they really sock it to you for
>>static ips. I had
>>hoped to go thru august.net for isp. I am now an earthlink customer, after
>>mindspring
>>got into bed with earthlink, after pipeline got bought out by mindspring.
>>Earthlink wants
>>to charge $67.50/month for dsl plus static ip, and on top of swbell
>>
> wanting
> 
>>$49.+ plus
>>their ip fee -- holy cripes. I guess I should just take my beating without
>>complaint, tho;
>>for 50 Xs the speed of dial up; let's see, I pay $21/month for dial up, 50
>>times that would
>>be Yikes! $1000/month. $120 or so sounds like a deal!
>>
>>dennis
>>
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