[ubuntu-uk] fit for the purpose

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>:

>> I'm happy to give Ubuntu to anyone I know - I know that I'm going   
>> to have less hassles than I get with the windows boxes I've   
>> installed!
>
> That is great! Unfortunately most of the non technical people I know
> would not even know what USB, or a modem was.
>
> I would also be interested to know more about the adsl usb modem you
> mention. My understanding to date is that adsl with USB (rather than
> ethernet) is likely to give problems, even with 7.04. To what extent
> is this true now?
>
> (Presumably it is a non router - adsl usb modem only?)
Alan,

As Far as I am aware, it is a bog-standard USB Sagem at 800 speedtouch  
jobbie that you get with most DSL connections these days.

It uses the Eagle chipset and apparently is supported in Ubuntu by  
default (I didn't know this until this person installed it!).

If I could, I'd switch everyone I know over to a router instead of a  
modem, however I often get the "why do I need another box to use  
linux, i didn't need it with windows" and a failure to understand that  
the switch to a router has nothing to do with the switch to Linux,  
it's just another improvement that I can make at the same time.  I  
think that this is mainly a failure to communicate at my end, but  
there we go!

M.


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