From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 0:21:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lusitania.sunsecure.net (unknown [208.136.254.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD85637B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 00:21:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from guinevere (gateway [216.63.158.30]) by lusitania.sunsecure.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0L8PMR71941 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:25:22 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <002001c08383$07b4fcb0$9865fea9@guinevere> From: "J. Seth Henry" To: References: Subject: Re: questions-digest V5 #36 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:20:35 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, most providers won't bat an eye if you have a cable/DSL router waiting for them to plug it into. We told the tech that came out that we were using a DSL router, and he just handed us the sheet with our info on it. I fired up a web browser on one of the linux boxes and proceeded to set it up. They did tell us we were on our own for technical support. Absolutely no problem with that - SW Bell has not exactly impressed me with their competence (at least as far as DSL goes) The only caveat is that we were using a third party ISP, and are not using PPPOE - ours was the last of the static IP's. Oh, and if an ISP/service provider tried to push a USB solution on me - I would ask them if they offered an ethernet version, and hang up if they didn't. I've seen USB ethernet connections, and I'm not impressed. A friend of mine drops off the network if she plugs her digital camera into the USB port. Unfortunately, her Starband receiver will only use ethernet if she opens the unit and removes the ethernet -> USB adapter board - voiding the warranty. Seth Henry jshenry@net-noise.com Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:33:51 -0600 From: Drew Sanford Subject: Re: bellsouth dsl? Christian Kuhtz wrote: > In fact, you could tell customer support that you're using a notebook without > USB, and they'll most likely hand you the alcatel 1000, which I am told is > self-install. Of course, you didn't hear this from me. Good luck. Actually they *insist* on sending a tech with this modem. The trick is, let them hook it up to anything thats running winders and has a NIC in it, then when they leave, plug it into whatever you want to. - -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message