DSL Modem/Router wanted

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins
> 
> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:33 am, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> 
> 
> Trying to remotely build a new PC with firewall just to 
> support a stupid USB 
> modem isn't a good idea.  What I need is something that will 
> connect to the 
> existing, working Ethernet card.
Why not just install a usb card in an open slot in the existing PC?

> ...  The town we're in is _very_ 
> rural.  Think 
> middle o' Kansas.  More cows than computers.
They still have cows in England? Are they still mad? ;')

> 
> her thing.  What she has is an older, pre-USB IBM laptop with 
> Windows98 and 
> Mandrake 9.x on it, and a working ethernet card.
An older IBM laptop with no USB? Wow, that's old! I have an older IBM
laptop (originally with Windows 98) and it has USB.

> 
> Local phone calls in the U.K., including calls to a dial-up 
> ISP, are usually 
> charged at 5¢/minute - one of the ways British Telecom tries 
> to clamp down on 
> the competition.
Lost me on that one. Guees you need to have the context.