[CUBE] ADSL Modems for the Cube.

[Erik Ableson]

Anything that puts out an ethernet jack on the one side will work 
perfectly.  Stay away from USB ones if you can - they need software on 
your machine to fool the system into thinking that the USB port is a 
network port - with varied quality.  If your DSL vendor says that they 
don't support Macs, ask them if their service supports DHCP or PPPoE 
for assigning IP addresses?  It will be one or the other and both are 
supported out of the box - all you need are the authentication details.

Ethernet based ones work the best and give you the longest term 
flexibility in terms of sharing your connection... They don't care that 
you're using a Cube, a Mac, a Solaris box, whatever.  I've used 
probably 6 different ones happily from nortel, alcatel, fujitsu, 
linksys all with no problems.  I picked up a generic Alcatel one for 
$50 on eBay a year ago to install over here in France where they were 
asking $130-250 € for an adsl modem.  The tough part about doing that 
is that you need to configure the DSL modem to work with your service 
provider and that will take many many phone calls until you get someone 
who knows what they're doing outside of installing their own 
pre-configured DSL modems.  Look at the Verizon supplied Fujitsu ones - 
no external dip-switches or means of configuration.

Erik

On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 11:56 AM, Clive and Hayley Solomon wrote:

> Can anyone suggest a Mac compatible (OS9.2 or OSX) ADSL modem - that 
> they
> have successfully got to work with the cube.