I had a similar situation and I was able to put the DSL modem into bridge mode and bypass its router/firewall functions entirely. Of course, I had my own router/firewall I used in its place. Finding out how to get the modem into bridge mode did take some research.

on Wed, 12 Dec, Paula Minor wrote:
The box with my DSL ATT stuff arrived today and I"m not sure I'm going to even try to install it. I hadn't realized that their modem was also the wireless box. I have NO intention of redoing my wireless network again.


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