Andy Zbikowski <administrator at ltiflex.com> wrote: > > > has anyone heard about the USB version under Linux? > > The reason I ask is because I am cheap. > This will always get you into trouble with hardware. No, haven't heard > anything about a USB based DSL modem under Linux. All I can say > is...kinda defeats the purpose of DSL when you limit it to what bandwith > you can pull over you USB bus... Eh? I thought the baseline for USB was 12 Mbps. I know that there are a lot of USB devices that run at slower speeds (I was very disappointed in a camera I used that ran at the same speed on serial and USB, for instance), but there's more than enough room there for DSL. Just a random thought: Why has USB (12 Mbps) been so successful while FireWire (400+ Mbps) has been very slowly adopted? Heck, I never even heard of USB until I saw it on a motherboard, while FireWire had been discussed in the trade press for years beforehand. Was there something to do with licensing? Standards? Just the fact that Apple was a principal character in FireWire? -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ The voters have spoken, / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ the bastards... \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]