-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2008-12-04 at 18:00 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Does anybody have any idea what is going on here? All the info that I can find online suggests that in other countries there is only an ISP, who provides the infrastructure himself. Where can I find information on the system that I described, so that I can better understand it? Thanks.
A very wild guess: it is similar to what happens in Spain, but you only do business with the ISP, it is handled transparently. Officially, you can hire an adsl connection from a number of companies. But in fact, the "copper pair" belongs to only one company (with exceptions). Therefore, the adsl "whatever box" on the ISP resides instead at the old telephone company offices, at the point the copper pair enters the exchange. The ISP has to rent some space there for their own equipment. How exactly they do this, I don't really know. I have my guesses, but I never worked on that "section"... - From the user point of view, it is transparent. They give you a router, and you configure it with a set of rules, or it comes already preconfigured. This is what I recommend: get a router from the ISP, or one supported by them. Less trouble with Linux. Interestingly, the router runs Linux internally! Even the payments can be transparent, you only pay the ISP, and it is the ISP who pays the old telephone company for the services they rent, if any. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk4AvgACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W+ygCgkNlBgcp8VKapybZbgjlIjWBz RogAnRTNZrZi4Mz1lUpbHQ//4cTfZWQ5 =411M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org