[ale] ADSL???

[Dave Brooks]

I didn't think BellSouth was offering ADSL service in Metro Atlanta yet?
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-----Original Message-----
 From: Chris Ricker <kaboom at gatech.edu>
To: Christopher R. McNabb <ilive at mindspring.com>
Cc: ALE List <ale at cc.gatech.edu>
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] ADSL???


>On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Christopher R. McNabb wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a way to do Linux and ADSL?  I refuse to use
Microsoft
>> products due to security issues, and I would need to build another box to
>> run NT (another I dont think sooo!)  My other known option is Mac, and
I'd
>> much rather use Linux if I can.  There HAS to be SOMEONE who's found a
way,
>> or at least is working on it.
>>
>
>I set it up yesterday.  It was incredibly easy, once I realized that it
>wasn't working because my NIC was set to 10-base-2 instead of 10-base-T
;-).
>
>Basically, ADSL is completely independent of your platform, assuming you
can
>get a 10-base-T card and a TCP/IP box in your machine.  In my case, I just
>hooked the digital modem up to a serial port, logged in over minicom,
>configured the modem for the settings my phone company wanted, then changed
>my machine's IP to the one my ISP gave me.  After that, I was up and
>running.  It's quite impressive.  The only problem is that it makes a
slight
>background hiss on the phone line, but I can live with that to be getting a
>speedy download at the same time....
>
>later,
>chris
>
>--
>Chris Ricker                                            kaboom at gatech.edu
>                                               chris.ricker at m.cc.utah.edu
>