I've been using DSL for a couple years now and can never go back to dialup. My wife feels the same way. I can save money by using cable internet, but I want to operate servers, hence my investment in DSL. If you are not going to bother with servers of various sorts cable internet might be a good choice for you. I didn't really find DSL complicated to set up. I just followed instructions from my provider. Once you discover you can do a kernel upgrade in a few minutes instead of several hours, you'll not go back to dialup either. Verizon DSL is incredibly simple to set up, but their installation software is heavily slanted towards Microsoft Windows systems. In fact their Windows setup routine is probably the simplest and least painful I've worked with to date. I don't know if Verizon offers Linux setup instructions. My own provider does offer Linux support. You must have some sort of firewall active. Ed Wilts offers very good advice. I agree with him. Be sure to turn off relaying in sendmail (or whatever your_preferred_MTA is), or at least set up very secure mail relaying for your domain only. First thing that will happen is spammers attack your mail server and use it as a relay. Bob On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 22:00, Globe Trotter wrote: > after years of resisting upgrading from dial-up, i am considering upgrading to > the cheaper version of DSL. question: is it easy to configure redhat 9 for DSL? > what does one need to do? anything i should keep in mind wrt the DSL modem? > > finally, this would the ultimate payback but can i subscribe to dsl with msn8 > and run linux on my machine? i use a dell latitude c840 if it matters. > > thanks for any help! > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Need help with computer hardware or software? I can take care of it in your home at very reasonable cost. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/
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