Re: [Nolug] "Can't activate eth0"

>>>>Be glad that B$ allows the use of a router at all...other companies TOS
>>>>you and you're screwed. They may do this soon, since they're starting to
>>>>sell residential routers. I just quit expecting support from them, unless
>>>
>>>
>>>What the heck is a "residential routers", as opposed to routers
>>>sold by Linksys, DLink, etc?
>>>
>>
>>It's a service. You pay them extra and they give you a router/modem
>>combo, and get tech support for routing your DSL. Before they offered
>>this, you had to be a business to do DSL routing and expect support.
>
>
> What's the point, unless they let you run your own externally add-
> ressable servers?
>

So Bill and Mary Consumer can both use thier computers on the internet
at the same time. These people dont' know what a server is, they just
want to use their computers at the same time. So the market was
identified, and services offered to provide to them. They could setup
static IP's, etc, but that would require more effort, cost Money, and
dip into The Bottom Line.

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Alex McKenzie     alex@boxchain.com     http://www.boxchain.com
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