OT - humour, sales abroad

So where did the "Starion" come from? My favourite of this type was the pictorial ad for a well known brand of "washes whiter" that showed, from L to R dirty clothes going in and clean clothes coming out. It was not a success in Arab countries :-) ttfn Roland

From a Mitsubushi executive who couldn't pronounce "Stallion" properly

- was supposed to be the companion model to the Pony.

Brian L Dominic

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which no doubt means that the Frontera came from a dyslexic descendant of Davy Crockett?? ttfn Roland

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which no doubt means that the Frontera came from a dyslexic descendant of

No, the Frontera was named by Janet Street-Porter 'o))

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

See area around Cadiz in Spain, Jerez de la Frontera.

Zafira comes from Zafra, home of Diter engines.

Peter

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Sintra is near Lisbon in Portugal

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Peter,

Your on a roll now :-))

Martin P

No, I am setting up a new machine and the network is playing hard to get :-((

Gives me a bit of relaxation in between throwing the router across the room....

We saw a lot of names/places on our various trips to Espana which immediately hit a chord through an advert or something like that.

Peter

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How does a wood working tool solve a networking problem?

;-)

Dan

Probably because it's heavier than the electronic variety and does more damage?:-))

For the benefit of anyone else looking to get networked: we wanted to split up the functions of one PC on to three, and the network gave us the connectivity to shunt files around between the systems. If we lost a machine, at least it wouldn't take down all of the work with it, although we do a weeklt CD backup.

That part wasn't too bad, we now have Internet/Website.CAD machines running on the network, and Philip's PC as well.

Then we wanted to take the modem out of the main PC and put it onto the router, so that all the PC's could use it. The router has a serial socket for just that purpose, and we have an external USR 56K modem......

Problem is, the modem and router tend to assume that you are in the 'states where you are connected full time, and I had to get out of the habit of connecting to the ISP first and then going online with a programme, to asking for something on a programme which then turned the modem on and it dialled out.

Turning off the modem is another gotcha, but you can do it.

BT ADSL is £28 a month, we have found some cheaper services but I think that we will go for them to start off with. Problem there is that their modem is USB not Ethernet so won't connect to the router.

Their modem is free (until 22nd December - special offer with ADSL line connection) but they don't seem to have an Ethernet output modem available, so we will have to buy one.

Just putting the modem outside onto the router has improved the reliability of the connection on a dial-up basis, so the internal modem may not have been that good in the first place...

I'm waiting for BT to come back and confirm the switch-over day, after which we should be set.

Peter

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Peter, I get my BT kit on the 22nd Jan and its only costing me £27.00.

Martin P

Chaps If you must bottom feed might we have some snipping, pretty please. Ta muchly Roland

Because he wants to use the internet as well as his own network. You may be thinking of the combined router/ ADSL modems which are available.

the other day, a 19 kg rainbow was caught down here, I think you would have taken the fly quicker! :-)

Tom

Do BT not do a "wires only" service where you supply the modem, microfilter(s) etc? I'm with Pipex on this basis, using an SMC Barricade modem/ router which just plugs straight into my existing network switch. (It has a 4 port router built in if you don't already have one.)

Broadband is the internet as it was meant to be; the experience is quite different, mainly due to the "always on" rather than sheer speed, although that's nice too, but the files just get bigger:-)

Curious, if you've got a router, why do you need an ADSL modem?

Tom

Not the nomenclature used down here, my machines are networked via an adsl ethernet router.. Seems retrograde to use two pieces of hardware when one would suffice. In fact the preference is to use a router over a modem even in a standalone PC scenario.

Tom

Have not got a clue about snipping but I have deleted all of the other stuff. Is that better :-))

Modem Router for ADSL Router for Cable