I am in desperate need of your help guys or gal. I currently am a BellSouth
ADSL customer and an suffering from terrible upload speeds 1kbs (my dialup
modem is 3.2) however the download is 1.4mbs. BellSouth has me connected to
a bridged circuit and I am using the Alcatel 1000 external modem and a
3com905 nic. They have told me the to improve my connection speed I need to
use a PPPOe connection and use the Efficient Networks 3060 internal pci
modem. This is a major problem because I run linux and there are no drivers
that I know of for the Efficient Networks 3060 card. Also they have no
support for linux. I have contacted Mindspring and have been told that they
also use PPPOe connections but that they provide external modems with rj45
outputs. However I have been told that you have to authenticate the
connection with some sort of software.
So the questions are as follows.
-What ISP are you using?
-What type of hardware do you have
-What linux version are you using
-What kind of connection software are you using?
-How successful is the software at obtaining and maintaining a constant
connection.
-I run a web and ftp server will I be disconnected if there is 4-12 hours of
inactivity.
-Does the software make the connection before loading the eth0 because I'm
running a firewall and eth0 needs to have obtained it's IP address before
executing the rc.local script in order for it to be successful.
I appreciate all help on this topic it is imperative before I switch.
Thanks all.
