>I'm considering moving to a broadband connection and, although I have a USB >PCI card installed and working, I've read somewhere that an ethernet >connection from the modem/router is more reliable than USB. > >Question! I've got the usual two ethernet sockets on the rear panel of my >7300. How can I be sure that they are enabled and working? When I turn on >AppleTalk only the printer and modem ports show - should the ethernet ports >show up as well? Can I still use FreePPP with an ethernet connection? > I think that you can only use one socket at a time, and there's is really no other way to find out if they works - but I use my 10/100 ethernet and it works great, do you have any reason to suspect that it would not work ? when i got the broadband I just hooked it up an there was no problem, there is a way to tell from TCP/IP if you have a connection with your broadband modem, and that is that you get an IP number startin with a 169. or so when you have established contact between the mac and the modem, and an IP number starting with 222. or so when the connection is okay all the way (of course that one might vairy a lot from place to place), you could try to fileshare with another machine? but why assume that its broken ? kenta
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