Re: Bush Internet Surf Set

[Stuart Poulton <swp@xxxxxxx>]

A trip during my luch hour to the locat ToysRus store, reveals that you
can buy the box in-store and that there is a mail in offer once you've
signed up to 'bush internet' which gets you a =A310 toysrus  voucher.


On box purchased, I've alread had the top off, and it's a custom board
>from

Hopefully I'll get pictures on-line soon.

Regards

Stuart


On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 12:29, Jon Payne wrote:
> Yep, this is definitely the way I'll go.... I'll report on how it went
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> Thanks to everyone for info and urls.
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> Jon.
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>   You can set up Windows RAS (NT/2K) to a null modem, and then patch
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>   G.
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>   Cant you use a db9 <> rj45 connector (one at both ends) and
make a null
>   modem cable... then simulate a dialup on the other side?
>   Then you'd have your machine connecting at port-speed to your lan?
>   I think slowly, everyone on IRC is deciding to get these things,
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>   <guessing only!>
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>   Matthew.
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>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Ian Oliver [mailto:ioliver.lists@xxxxxxx]
>   Sent: 29 November 2001 10:05
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Bush Internet Surf Set
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>   In article <007901c17886$3b048fb0$0401a8c0@xxxxxxx>, 
wrote:
>   > Does you *needing* thses mean that they can be hacked to be
intranet
>   > browsers?
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>   They can be hacked to connect to any ISP and I suspect other hacks
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>   Regards
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>   Ian Oliver
>   Sunny Leeds, UK
>   Using Java on Tini for control via Dallas 1-wire