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Hi,
Having read a ton of pages about Ethernet vs USB, and still not being able to set up my connection, I'll be buying an Ethernet Card tomorrow.
NTL wired me up yesterday and I have a PIN, username and serial number. My question is how, once I install my new card and hopefully everything is recognised, do I get connected? How do NTL know that I have registered etc? Does my modem need registering at their end?
I don't run Windows, and haven't for a long time so don't have the opportunity to run the disc NTL provide to get myself registered, if that's what the disc does.
If anyone out there could offer any help I would really appreciate it.
I cheated. One of my PC is dual-boot Win98/Linux. The Windows partition gets booted up about once every 3 months but getting my NTL broadband setup was one of those occasions.
Having got it set up, I just rebooted Linux and away I went.
One thing though : if you have a technical problem (as I did - lost access and eventually they had to re-initialise the set-top box) they won't offer you support unless you are using a Windows PC directly attached. I again had to boot into Windows to get them to fix the problem (not to mention listen to them going through things which obviously weren't the problem, but that's just tech support I guess).
Well, I threw my USB thing in a draw and used a NIC like you guys. I found out that I needed to reset the set top box after I used windows for it to work with linux (something to do with the setup box holding different 'windows type' settings or something (someone told me that a long time ago in a forum far away lol)
If you plug a new computer (or router) into the setup box it will automatially come up with that registration page . I now use a Linksys router, but I did have Coyote Linux setup as a router before
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