DSL Modem/Router wanted

[Brian Kelsay]

He said it was a laptop.  It would have to be a USB PCMCIA card.
The inclusion of the phone call cost is that if he has to call her and walk her thru some long procedure or fix, it can get expensive quick.  He probably wants a drop in solution.  He should know from his own time over there whether or not their phone lines are wired the same.  We use 2-wire into a RJ-11 here, do they use some funky plug requiring an adapter?  Is their ethernet wired to a different standard and if so, will it still work w/ US equip.?  IEEE is supposed to be an international standards body, but they still use different electrical voltages than us, so anything is possible.


Brian Kelsay

>>> "Brian Densmore" <> 01/25/05 10:18AM >>>

Why not just install a USB card in an open slot in the existing PC?
> 
> 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. Guess you need to have the context.