ADSL breaks even
Well, iPrimus are selling 200Mb/mo ADSL for $13/mo, so that was cheap enough to drag me in. But it’s been weeks and the ADSL modem still hasn’t turned up. Should I buy my own and tell them to sod off? It’s meant to be ADSL2 capable…
Now all I need is a bulletproof OS that can hook up to the net at 256Mb/s without turning into a zombie. I’m thinking that Multimedia PC I’m building has to be turned on all the time, so perhaps to hang the modem off it and have it act as a secondary firewall and NAT. Yet another reason to use Fedora.
Fedora Core 4 is out now - do you think I should go there?
June 17th, 2005 at 11:37
You’ve lived this long without broadband and can’t wait another week for the modem to turn up????
June 17th, 2005 at 16:06
Depends what they’re sending you. If it’s USB you shouldn’t have even ordered it. Does it have a router/firewall built-in?
June 18th, 2005 at 10:07
Try out Ubuntu Linux. It deals with dependencies in a very, very, very easy way.
June 21st, 2005 at 14:44
The modem: Netcomm NB5 (I think) USB+ethernet; builtin firewall. Not sure if it does routing. So, not throwing money away. Good.
Ubuntu Linux - had bad reports. I’ll stick with what’s worked for those around me, and I’ve used Fedora before.
June 23rd, 2005 at 11:04
Go iiNet. $60/mo for 12gb on the 512 plan. Tell ‘em voyager sent you.
June 23rd, 2005 at 21:55
Well, since you’re mentioning referrals, if you go for Netspace, put dbowen as the referer