RE: Orange Unique / Broadband / Mac

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Jim Noble
> Sent: 28 January 2007 11:36
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Orange Unique / Broadband / Mac
>=20
> The Orange "Livebox" is the biggest POS adsl modem I've ever
come
> across. Don't touch it with a bargepole is my advice.
>=20
> Jim

...or use any one of the many and varied ADSL routers that are available
from every "cr=E8che of Satan" (PC World) and it doesn't matter
what modem
they give you. Then it's just a matter of what the service is like.

My mum's on AOL (which obviously no-one on here would touch with a
bargepole, right?) but I set her up with a LinkSys router/modem and she
doesn't have any of the pappy AOL software on any of her machines, she
send=
s
and receives email through a "normal" email program (Thunderbird)
and
browses the web via a normal web browser (Firefox). Other than that, as far
as she's concerned the service is flawless...

...OK, when I go there and can't get *MY* laptop to send and receive email
because they block ongoing SMTP ports as a spam prevention measure then
it'=
s
a bloody pain.

What I'm saying is that just coz the freebie hardware they give you might
b=
e
a pile of pap then don't dismiss the service on that basis - if the service
is good and does what you want then a pappy freebie modem isn't the end of
the world.

Phil