ADSL
Gone broadband, with ADSL from Pipex. The deal was hard to ignore;
£24 a month, and no activation charge. I bought an Alcatel Speedtouch
510 ADSL 4 port router switch to act as gateway to the LAN. It
provides DNS, DHCP, NAT and kitchen sink. The Speedtouch has a LAN
side address of 10.0.0.138, so I decided to change my network
addresses to the same class A scheme. I stopped using crimson as the
DHCP server, and made all the machines in the network (all two) DHCP
clients. The default domain name provided by the Speedtouch is "lan",
which I left untouched.