I live in rural UK,5 kilometres(about as far as you can get) from my phone exchange,no Cables hereabouts.I'm with rubbish UK ISP Tiscali(no Mac support).My ADSL connection thru a Speedtouch 330 modem is dreadful.I connect for maybe half an hour,then lose the connection,wait for hours,finally get another signal,connect for 5 minutes,etc etc.Better during the daytime,but not much.The other thing about the Modem is that every now and then it all starts flashing,the screen/mouse/all locks up and I have to restart from the tower.It's driving me insane and Tiscali are no help whatsoever.My top speed is 512k (faster seems impossible)-which is fine,when it works....I got better connection with dial-up but the internal got zapped by lightning.
So I'm thinking about moving to a better ISP with Mac support,and maybe going to Ethernet.But I don't have a whole load of money for a router.Can someone run down the pros and cons? Particularly whether I'm more likely to stay connected for longer....in layman's terms please,thanks!
I've got a G4 AGP graphics running OSX10.3.9.
And any recommendations for UK ISPs (not Telewest etc,I can't get cable)?
So I'm thinking about moving to a better ISP with Mac support,and maybe going to Ethernet.But I don't have a whole load of money for a router.Can someone run down the pros and cons? Particularly whether I'm more likely to stay connected for longer....in layman's terms please,thanks!
I've got a G4 AGP graphics running OSX10.3.9.
And any recommendations for UK ISPs (not Telewest etc,I can't get cable)?
