I had the luxury of an old box lying around, on that I installed Smoothwall (contentious issue - but I like it) and plugged it into a netgear DS108 hub. I currently have 2 windoze boxes and 2 SuSE boxes attached to this hub (7.3 & 8.0) The Speedtouch ALACATEL usb modem took a little tweaking to get it running but the end result is 4 pc's hanging off 1 ADSL line. I have no issues with speed and full confidence in Smoothwall... Total cost ? - Hub - c £50 Box - £free (in my case although you should be able to pick something up relatively cheap nowadays £50 ish) Modem - As part of the broadband kit £85.00 hth Pete On Tuesday 27 August 2002 12:50, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Hi All,
I am still on dialup here in the UK, but have been wondering whether to dip my toes into broadband. There are a couple of reasonably attractively priced deals involving kit like the Netgear DG814 broadband router and 4 port switch - since I had intended to to have a small network anyway, this might form a useful alternative to attaching a usb modem to the SuSE machine and then having to buy a separate hub.
However, my ignorance is complete - anyone got any experience with such devices under SuSE, and / or other *nix, ideally experience that involves attaching to the BTOpenworld broadband, the only kind I actually have on offer where I live. Don't worry about patronising me, I really know zip about this category of equipment.
Thanks for any input Best Fergus