Martin John Collins wrote:
Thanks for all your replies to "Groupware for the Home". I did read them but was switching over to ADSL (lucky me) at the time and the 'switch over' really hasn't finished yet as you'll understand from my plight below!
I have gone over to ADSL with Pipex. The Speedtouch 330 USB modem they sent was a nightmare and I tried and tried to get it to work with Linux but to no avail (tried all the drivers and even started installing new distro's!!).
Finally I had enough and purchased a modem router - ethernet
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Just FYI...
We do this stuff a lot for customers, and we *never* bother with the vendor supplied USB things. They seem to be "optimised" for 'doze, and a PITA.
We use an MRI adsl router/bridge which is about 55 quid and have no problems, certainly none such as you are displaying. We always put a linux firewall between the router and the LAN, and they stay up forever.
Cheers, Laurie.