[ILUG] Why did Eircom send me an ADSL modem?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Saturday 21 February 2004 23:07, David Golden wrote:

> > Yesterday Eircom sent ne an unsolicited gift -
> > a Netopia Cayman ADSL modem.

>  I know I got one and it's working pretty well so far. Completely
> trouble-free installation with a linux box if you're just connecting a lone
> machine - just plug in the ethernet cable (here I assume you have a working
> ethernet port on your linux box),  set your linux box to get its address by
> dhcp, then browse to 192.168.1.254 (which is the modem.  The dhcp server on
> the modem will probably assign your machine 192.168.1.1 ...) and enter your
> eircom username  and password.

Thanks for the info.

I should have made it clear that I already have an Eircom ADSL modem (Alcatel)
which works perfectly well.

I'm not clear if it is automatically assumed that I want to move
from my current Starter package to the new package, whatever it is called.
Or is it still the Starter package, at a lower price?

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