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"ADSL - Help Me Please!"

This is a desperate calling to Turbo, Andi, Reaper or anyone who can help me work out what I am doing wrong and how I establish connection on my Windows 95 PC (which has been connected through a lease line for the past year which recently expired).

I am connected through a ADSL Cable Modem external thingy. It has one port line out and a USB out thingy. I know that its running on a DHCP Server and I have tried to connect through my PPP ethernet card onto it which temporarily takes this laptop offline (obviously).

Basically, it wont connect? Won't Recognise anything like that and I am beginning to cry myself insane over it. I have a hub and all that, I just need actual pointers on how to connect through the board with my ethernet card and Win95 computer.

Please help. Before my dad kills me for using this Mac for all my emails etc.

I was going to sign up for Freeola and thought that the monthly price was great and knew I could trust the service, however the installation fee is way over my limit as I only work four hours a week!

Help? Please?
er-no (his 1 post of the month due to no connection)

BTW, all BAD PERSON tags have been unlocked!

Yeah, found it, but the fag's didn't supply my dad with a password or username.

What annoying maggots.

Why don't freeola have cheaper installation - say 50quidy. I would buy NOW.

nah, cant remember it offhand. it was in the support gumpf that they send you when you get set up. it'll be on www.telewest.co.uk somewhere and i remember you needed to login with your username etc, but it was a while ago since i used it.

ajg wrote:
>
> But then they also allow you to register other NICs via their website.
> Check your account details online and you might get more information.

Do you have that address or actually know its possible to register via their website?

Would help. :)

er-no wrote:
> Ok, question for you Turbonutter. Is it possible for telewest to only
> let this mac connect to the internet? I remember they took the
> hardware number details and all that... do you think that is why my
> Win95 PC can't establish connection even though the lights are all
> on?
>
> ??

To be honest that sounds more likely to be the problem.

Do you mean MAC address or NIC address. I remember when I used to be with telewest although they make a note of my machine specs, I dont think they needed all that, just the NIC address.

But then they also allow you to register other NICs via their website. Check your account details online and you might get more information.

Burn it.

Better, give it to me :-)

You can still use your old PC you know, there is life after gateways ;-)

Will have to get a new PC then.

:( This one lasted me six years. Its like a child to me. My faithful 233Mhz.

Not being funn here but no ISP should take any MAC address of any computer for internet access. MAC address information would be far too much hassle for any ISP, all they do is dish out IP information via their DHCP servers.

They are not interested in MAC addresses at all, trust me.

I think your problem lies in the Win95 computer, I suggest that you at least upgrade to Win98x or get a Linux box running IPCop on your network and that will allow any computer to access the net accros the network.

Ok, question for you Turbonutter. Is it possible for telewest to only let this mac connect to the internet? I remember they took the hardware number details and all that... do you think that is why my Win95 PC can't establish connection even though the lights are all on?

??

The Win95 computer is the one connected to the Internet, yes? Is it working? Can you access the Internet from it? That's your main concern at the moment.