From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 15 5:10:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8841537B491 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:10:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA06403; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:10:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:10:32 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Haikal Saadh , Stephen McKay , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broadband downunder In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 15 Feb 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: :"Haikal Saadh" writes: :> > Shockingly, I had the same experience ordering DSL from Verizon. I was :> > quite clear that I wasn't a Windows user, and was told that wasn't a :> > problem, as long as my equipment did IP over ethernet and DHCP. We'll see, :> > if the hardware ever shows up. :> Hardware compatability should not be an issue, should it? : :I think he meant "shows up" as in "arrives at my doorstep" :) : Indeed. I'm not suprised that it will work. I'm suprised that the service provider admits it. I've been told by more than one dialup provider that they are incompatabile with anything other than windows. Not just, "We don't support that", but "It won't work". It's never been true. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message