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.
That is also similar to ISPs in Germany.
- 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!
FOr my ADSL ISP, I have to log in using a username and password. Connecting direct from Linux was a pain.. possible, but a pain... and then I discovered that my Netgear WiFi/wired router can do the login for me. Set it up to take care of it, and no problems at all.. I boot my Netgear router, it connects to the ISPs router, and via that logs me into the ISP. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org