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Insane ADSL update...

Posted August 27, 2002 1:13 PM.

Ok. The latest news for BTOpenworld customers struggling with broadband access via crappy alcatel modems is that you might just as well stick your thumb up your ass for all the help they'll provide at the moment. In the meantime, according to a helpful correspondent who is high up at a Mac print-publication, Hermstedt ADSL modems (around £139) come with fully working OSX.2 drivers. Which is a nice if expensive solution. Equally expensive but apparently the solution if you're planning to use Airport is the solution that Matt Webb suggested to me - buy an ethernet router of some kind and stick it between the Alcatel modem and the computer. Apparently this will help...

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