Re: ADSL Modem recomendations

[Bill <billcooper@mailandnews.com>]

Guldo K wrote:

> On Tue, 06 May 2003 10:00:21 +0200
> Bill Cooper <BillCooper@mailandnews.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hello all,
> >    the company I work for has decided to host some Internet services 
> > (mail and web) through a DSL link. We were planning on using the telco 
> > provided router, but the router (a 3Com OCR612) has proven to be very 
> > unreliable when it comes to allowing external access to internal services.
> >    So does anyone have a modem or router that they can recommend for 
> > use with Debian? I'd prefer to use a PCI modem, but I'm open to 
> > anything. BTW telco uses PPPoA (RFC2364).
> >    
>
> I don't know anything about routers, sorry; but:
>  
>
> >    Does anyone have any experience with the Alcatel SpeedTouch modem 
> > under Debian Woody?
> >    
> I just use an alcatel speedtouch.
> I couldn't get the *kernel* module to work, due to dependencies, but the *user* module works fine.
> Here's a guide:
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/speedtouch/speedtouch/doc-linux/howto/SpeedTouch-HOWTO-en.html
>
> Bye,
>
> Guldo
>
>  
Hi all
   again and thanks for the responses. Sorry about getting back to this 
so late, stuff was hectic at the office. I might be able to get the 
alcatel on quick order, what problems you did you have with the modules?

Bill