Re: Orange Unique / Broadband / Mac

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

... also encouraging !

Chris


Phil Harris wrote:

>>-----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
>>
>>The Orange "Livebox" is the biggest POS adsl modem I've
ever come
>>across. Don't touch it with a bargepole is my advice.
>>
>>Jim
>>=20=20=20=20
>>
>
>...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
sen=
ds
>and receives email through a "normal" email program
(Thunderbird) and
>browses the web via a normal web browser (Firefox). Other than that, as
fa=
r
>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 =
be
>a pile of pap then don't dismiss the service on that basis - if the
servic=
e
>is good and does what you want then a pappy freebie modem isn't the end
of
>the world.
>
>Phil
>



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