On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:03:59PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
| I'm pondering broadband at home, and I'm looking at cable
| (www.cogeco.com) and ADSL (quebec.telus.com).
|
| High-speed internet via cable is easy to connect to on Linux (I
| did a few times on videotron) but I wonder about ADSL. I hear
| the modem are connected via USB and you need to setup PPPoE.
|
| Does it work?
| Does anyone know if the Telus-Quebec modem is supported in Linux?
| It is straightforward to setup the connection?
I have no knowledge of that ISP, but here is some info about ADSL :
o you get a bridge or router from your ISP (commonly called "DSL
modem")
o if this is an external bridge/router it probably connects to
the machine via ethernet
o my ISP gave me a Cisco 677 bridge and Linksys USB100TX NIC.
It is that NIC which connects to the USB port. It is
supported ('pegasus'), however I use the LNE100TX I already
had instead.
o if you get an internal "DSL modem", good luck. It probably
only works with windows.
o PPPoE *may* be used, but it is up to the ISP. My current ISP
uses dhcp on my client side. I then need to logon via a web
form (I automated it with a one-iliner in python). Another
ISP in my area gives a static IP and a direct connection. I
am planning to switch to them when my free trial period is
over. With them it would be as easy to setup as my home
ethernet LAN.
HTH,
-D
