catgate Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 The setting up of a normal dial-up winmodem is carried out manually and all seems to be fairly straight forwards. In fact other than the driver they seemed to be clones. For some reason BB modems all seem to come with a CD full of installation stuff. In the case of the Thomson Speedtouch, supplied by Onetel, there is even a setup for a diagnostic thing which, like ET, keeps trying ring home. It all looks like cloak and dagger stuff to me. The purpose of this diatribe is to ask if all asdl modems are configured the same way? I have another Thomson Speedtouch (not supplied by Onetel but with another, yet similar, CD) and I was wondering if I just simply swapped the hardware would the software already on the computer drive this other Speedtouch?Why? Well I am having sillyness with the existing one (I think). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 I've just recently upgraded to a SpeedTouch router and it was a lot simpler to set up then I thought after I had discovered that I had disabled LAN in the BIOS I used to have a BT Voyager 100 modem and in the 3 years of using it I hardly ever got any problems with it.I prefer a router though as you don't need to install drivers for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 My NTL cable modem is configured by hand. Nothing is installed whatsoever. If I need to reinstall Windows, I just create an account again in Outlook Express. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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