[wellylug] (no subject)

[Bruce Hoult]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:45 AM, MDM Productions
<thefrasers at clear.net.nz> wrote:
> Morning all. A really low-level of computer experience showing here:
>  Have been given a HP NX9005 Lappy and installed both PuppyLinux and
>  XUbuntu on it. Puppy 2.17 because it is quite happy and fast on a Dell
>  desktop and can see the DSE modem in the Dell, and XUbuntu because it's
>  the obvious XP substitute. However neither can see the laptop modem with
>  my initial floundering around in detection and setup. My question is,
>  with the chance of the software modem working, ever, being remote, does
>  broadband change this situation? We are about to sign up, but how does
>  the machinery see the server?

Broadband is normally delivered to computers using ethernet and/or wifi.

TelstraClear's cable modems have an ethernet port, which you then plug
into a single PC or else into an ethernet /wifi router such as a
Linksys WRT54 or an Apple Airport.

With DSL you can choose from a variety of DSL modems.  Ones with USB
interfaces or built onto a PCI card may be available, but it's much
better to get one with ethernet and usually they will have several
ethernet ports and also act as a router.  WIFI is also available as an
option directly on many DSL modems, or you can plug one of the
ethernet ports into a specialized WIFI router.

There has never been any problem with Linux, Mac, Sun, or any other
non-windows machine with regard to accessing broadband.