[Ham-Mac] Time for a change?

[Tim McLeod]

Don't give up the ship just yet!

A DSL router should talk very nicely to the ADSL modem and will give you a
Firewall as well.
Assuming your PB3400 has the Ethernet option, you just set your TCPIP stack
to look at the router and you're away to the races.  I've done this with 68K
Macs.

- Tim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cleeve" <g3jvc@jcleeve.idps.co.uk>
To: <Ham-Mac@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:09 PM
Subject: [Ham-Mac] Time for a change?


> Please forgive this submission, if is considered "off topic" but I am
> sure that many of you have been down the same road, and I would be
> grateful for advice.
>
> I think the time has come for a change....my reasons, although in all
> other respects, my current computer works as is should, I am concerned
> by the very low rate of downloading information from the Internet. My
> present computer, a PowerBook 3400c, using a 56kb modem, often downloads
> at as little as 1byte per second, even very late at night, when all self
> respecting people should be asleep, and it has never acheived the 56kbs
> that the modem is capable of. However, for just e-mail exchanges, my
> 3400c computer, and the free ISP connection are enough.
>
> But now, in the UK, British Telecom have a special deal for domestic
> users, offering their new 24 hour broadband ADSL connection, with a half
> price modem, and the first month free. BT tests on my telephone line
> show that information would download at 2Mbs if I were to subscribe.
>
> Great, I thought, I will subscribe, however, there is a snag for Mac
> users, this ADSL system will only work, if you have a G4, or later,
> running system 9, or later, which rules out my current Mac equipment.
> But, if you use a Microsoft PC, the British Telecom ADSL system will
> work with Windows 98 and later, using Pentium 2, and later  equipment.
>
> So, it seems I have a choice, either stay as I am, and ignore the mass
> of data now being transferred to the internet, such as literature from
> manufacturers etc. or bite the bullet, and buy another computer, which
> will take advantage of the broadband connection. If I buy another
> computer, then which ? I love my Macs, but, do I remain faithful to the
> marque. The contents of my wallet is shrinking, as I grow older, and I
> think the choice will have to be a PC, which will then eliminate all the
> frustration I have experienced over the years, when trying to use PC
> software on a Mac.
>
> I would appreciate any thoughts that the group might have, I sure that
> many of you have been there, and done that, but I think that I will have
> to go with the masses, just like the domestic video recorder,
> VHS-V-Betamax situation , and go for the cheaper, and most likely,
> inferior system.
>
> Sincerely, John Cleeve.G3JVC.
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