Hi Kory,
Agreed - BellSouth tech support sucks although the installation
engineers generally seem to know what they are doing. I have BellSouth
at home and have been very happy with it - I just don't ever call tech
support and I don't try to use the modem to do anything other than act
like a modem.
The last time I spoke to BellSouth there were two DSL options for
home - a USB thingy or an Alcatel SpeedTouch modem. I'd recommend the
SpeedTouch Modem which is what I use at home - it's a 10BaseT network
device - I connect it directly to a NetGear DSL router and use the
Bellsouth installation CD as a Beermat.
The standard Bellsouth DSL service is a dynamic IP but since the
NetGear router supports the DYNDNS service you can register a domain
name and have it resolved automagically. This approach is completely OS
independent with the Netgear router doing NAT so that I have a private
network in the house.
If you want to try this approach I have both the Alcatel modem and
NetGear Router spare - I'd be willing to swap both for a couple of cases
of Shiner Bock...
The ASCII network map looks like this:
DSL --->[modem]---->[Router]
+--------------- NT box
+---------- FreeBSD box
+---------------- XP-Pro box
+------------- Redhat box
+------------------ SLIMP3
--
Edmund Cramp
http://www.emgsrus.com/graffiti.htm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
> Of Kory Wnuk
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 8:31 AM
> To: BRLUG
> Subject: [brlug-general] Bellsouth DSL Connection
>
>
> Has anyone who formerly had a DirectTV DSL (formerly
> Telocity) connection switched to the BellSouth plan?
> Or is there anyone who is currently using the
> BellSouth DSL connetion? If so, is there anything I
> need to be aware of when attempting to setup my new
> DSL account? Since I am running Linux and the setup
> is geared toward users who are running Windows, I am a
> concerned. Thanks for any help that anyone is able to
> provide.
>
> Kory
>
> =====
> Failure is NOT an option! That is why I use Linux...
>
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