> Mines online for at least 12 hours a day , which is bad. Especially when you 
> realise that i have to dial into a location in London ( national rate ) , 
> thats >�1,000 ( sometimes �2,000 ) a month in phone bills. Thankfully my 
> employer picks up the tab.

  I bet your employee is happy with that!
 
> Well i just chatted with one of my LUG contacts from back down South and he's 
> pretty confident that the Smoothwall firewall is already set up ( and if it 
> isn't it will be shortly ) to work with the new ISDN box.

  The Smoothwall firewall?? Whats that? Im quite new to Linux. Can u explain?
 
> The other alternative ( i know from bitter experience ) is to connect via 
> ISDN with windows and use it as a proxy for your Linux box. Not exactly an 
> impressive use of technology , but you get the full speed on your Linux box 
> then ( and if , as i did , you hide the windows laptop under the bed , then 
> no-one will ever know that your degrading yourself with windows ).

  LOL! I like the idea about hiding the box under the bed! The only problem is 
I really need the Linux box to be connected to the ISDN as I use it as a web 
server! :-(

Ewan :-)
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