the fat bloke from NTL just came round after diggin pu our road 14 months ago to seel me a cable package....

i'm set to get a 512kbps ethernet jobby. Anyone brits here using that under linux? any problems?

and do i need a dedicated ethernet card for it or can i connect it to a hub.. would've thought not...

You cannot connect it to a hub. Which means I have to connect mine to the USB port of my machine because my ethernet card is basically an internal 4 port hub.

I would like to know how you got on with connecting and how you got it up and running, as I have not got mine working with Linux yet.

ahh it was easy, worked first time, just well.... buy another ethernet card and just set it up as dhcp on boot. bombproof. none of that usb crap.

I've just setup one on NTL.

You can do either.
Plug it to a hub and it will allocate you NTL addresses.
Plug it into the network card and it will get the address from bootp.

Systems that connect on Linux use a different network on NTL from PC's.

Problems you get are stupid configured internal NTL systems broadcast from internal IP addresses ranges, so firewall log need to be aware of these systems.

Also Cable modem can crash often if you start to severely mangle the packets going out.

Also the allocated ip's for the linux bootp requests are on a faster network then the Win DHCP systems, so the performance is better.

/Raz