All:
Would your choice be Netzero, DSL Extreme, ATT Yahoo, or something else? I am thinking of getting DSL
here in North San Diego County and I was wondering.

Keith

Keith Lee a écrit ce vendredi 9 janvier 2009 14:23 dans
<bNadnZ3q1otO0vrUnZ2dnUVZ_qninZ2d@nethere.com> :


I think just any would work if the DSL modem works as standalone and has an
ethernet connector towards the PC.

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The service provider would make no difference in "how well it works with
Mandriva". That has no bearing on anything.


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That is basically what I have. DSL is a standard, and the differences will
probably be in pricing, support, etc. Being in Oz, I can't comment on the
relative merits of the providers Keith mentions. In general terms, get a
largeish provider, which won't go out of business when you least expect. I
chose mine on a favourable recommendation, then discovered that I could
never talk to Head Office, only the local agent, with his own knowledge -
and I was in a different town. They have since ditched that model.

If you know anybody that left one of them, find out why. That was something
I heard some time ago. Don't listen to the good reports, but to the bad
ones - fairly, of course. Some people are never pleased.

Doug.
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know
peace.
- Jimi Hendrix.

Please explain to me why it should make any difference that you're using
mandrivel. I don't understand.

I'm not an American so I have no knowledge or advice whatsoever to share
with you on which of the above internet service providers works best for
you, but neither of those should have anything to do with your choice for
Mandriva as your operating system, or GNU/Linux in general for that matter.

The only thing you should be looking out for is that the connection between
your machine and the internet happens via an ethernet cable between your
computer and the DSL/cable modem, as some ISPs tend to offer solutions with
USB-connected cable modems, and those suck bigtime.

As long as you've got a DSL modem which connects to your machine via
ethernet and you have a Linux-supported ethernet adapter in your machine -
preferably one with a GPL'ed driver, so that it's supported by the vanilla
kernel and debuggable - anything goes, whether you're running Mandriva,
(Open)SuSE, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, LFS,
Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu/wateverbuntu, or whatever other branch of
GNU/Linux you can think of. ;-)

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*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

That is good advice in general. When I was deciding which college to
attend, I'd ask students there, "What's the worst part about going
here?" Every student had some gripe at the top of their list, but their
answers told me a lot about the school.

Adam

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:23:31 -0600

AT&T/Yahoo will send you a free ethernet modem/router, well so would
the others but I would not take a chance and get a USB [only]
modem/router, although most of them come with ethernet and USB
together there might be a USB only out there floating around by chance
and USB only modems usually require device drivers and work better
with Windows than they do Linux [although they can be made to work
fine in Linux] its just simpler to get and hook-up a "ethernet" wired
cable connected modem/router than it is a wireless only or USB only
modem.
If you've been using dialup you'll find DSL or Cable modems easier
to use than dialup ever was or will be.

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Older DSL modems (and I mean really old older modems) needed a PPPoE
client on the PC. I got a router to deal with that.

red floyd <redfloyd@gmail.com> writes:


The modem is important. Get one with an ethernet, not a usb connection. It
is far far more troublefree, no matter what OS you use. The ISP can be
important if things stop working an you need help getting them working
again.