This might ramble a bit, if you get bored, I'll understand.... In the next three to four weeks I'll be moving house. It's a big deal for several reasons, not least as it's the first house move in 20 years.... Here are a few other facts.
1) I have cable here with 1M broadband, and will have 5 miles of copper-to-switch at my new place - ADSL may work, no-one can say yet. BT's guess is that I may get 1M ADSL, but they will have to come and test the line. I can't even give them a phone number to test yet since it was disconnected when the last owner died. 2) The new place is 300 miles from here, so I can't just pop round to check anything before we go. 3) The move will take three days, one to pack, one to travel and one to unpack (say the movers), so I'll definitely have my systems down for that long. And since I'll just have the one phone line, I certainly won't be able to get all my systems on-line until I get some sort of broadband, and that may be 3 weeks after I move. 4) My current ISP (ntl) doesn't provide the best service in the new area, so I plan to get my broadband from Freedom-2-surf, who do a fixed IP broadband service at a good rate - provided BT can support ADSL on the line, of course. (In the UK, almost all the copper switch-to-home infrastructure is owned and operated by BT, but the pricing and billing is unbundled) (http://www.freedom2surf.net/adsl/prouser.php) However, if ADSL won't work I might need to get a satellite downlink instead - unfortunately all the low-cost providers here insist on a Windows platform... I've bought a new domain name for the new house :-) (Nosy parkers: www.langside.org.uk) I've moved all my email to gmail. I'm copying all my web sites to non-ISP-providers. I've downloaded the sources and HowTos for ADSL setup - including a copy of BLFS :-) I've setup and tested a dial-up provider (http://www.uklinux.net/). What else should I be doing to make sure this (IT-wise at least) all works as smoothly as possible? Richard. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
