At 8:54 PM +0300 2/13/01, Ron wrote:
>My ISP just started offering DSL and have gotta get it!
>
>I'm told a network PC card is needed...what cards are people using
>in their Powerbooks?
>
>Also, if I should ever want to connect to the building owner's LAN
>in the apartment building, (and have DSL without paying for it,
>though I'm not quite sold on that idea yet), some software is needed
>so the server PC recognizes my Powerbook. Dave? Double Talk?
>Thanks, All.
>--
You need an Ethernet PC card. i have been using a Farallon Ethermac
card since 1998 without any problem.
If yu conenct strait to a DSL line then you simply plug the ethernet
wire that comes out of the PC card into the DSL modem. You set up
your TCP/IP as told by the IPS, set Appletalk to Ethernet and you are
off to high speed (be careful, once gotten used to, there is no way
you go back to a dialup modem connection without major psychological
trauma.
To simply connect to an existing LAN in order to use it to access the
Internet you don't need anything else than Open Transport and TCP/IP
which are part of your OS (and the guy who has the service has to set
you up behind his router).
Only if you want to share files will you need DAVE or things like that.
I can highly recommend the book called "The Little Network Book" by
Poole & Rizzo to answer questions like these.
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