Phil thank you for your reply below.
First point re Router: I would prefer to steer clear of wireless routers as I still don't trust them with regard to interception. I am a family historian and have loads of certificate on my H/D which I need to keep safe, so PC security is paramount. Bad enough with the government snooping on our internet activity. I would prefer a corded router, do you sell any of them on Ebay Phil? If so, please send a weblink to me. Secondly re tranfering my MS docs into OpenOffice - Again it is my family history stuff, which I tried once to do an automatic import into OpenOffice and some of the documents, the content was not reconised and went missing. As these are important documents to me, I just thought it best to be on the safe side and manualy copy the one's from MS word, the PDF files will be fine as they are. It will only need to done once. Judy Re DHCP are you reffering smtp and pop configuration. If so ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Thompson" <p...@yarwell.demon.co.uk> To: "Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts" <peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Hello from Judy a newbie + 2 questions > On 04/02/2009 Judy wrote: >> read a couple of internet postings dated 2006 from people saying >> they were experiencing problems setting-up Tiscali broadband with >> Linux. From what I gather it may have been a driver issue and the >> fact that Tiscali was still refusing to acknowledge Linux. Some >> people were saying they overcame the problem by using a Router >> instead of Tiscalis modem. Does that problem still exist? If so, can >> anyone recommend a Linux compatible Router to be used with ISP >> Tiscali please? > > the best way to connect any pc to broadband is via ethernet, using an > ethernet router. Tiscali do use a Siemens wireless / ethernet router, > the past postings may have related to USB modems. > > As ethernet is built in at the lowest level on the motherboard it is the > way to go, no driver required. You don't need any setup CDs or other ISP > tosh, just the usual DHCP assigned IP on the ethernet port and set up > the router via its web interface. > > If Tiscali won't give you a router buy one of theirs off Ebay (or me, I > have a couple off Ebay in stock). > > I wasn't sure why you were intending to convert your MS documents as > OpenOffice will read and write them back into MS formats if needed. > Perhaps you were going to polish up any inconsistencies. > > > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
