Hi Mat,
I have no idea what the modem costs - I think Bellsouth hit us with a
$200 "cancelation fee" when we moved the work connection over to Eatel
so I'd guess it's somewhere in the $100-$200 range but
http://www.dsl-warehouse.com sells them for $350! There's a review of
the Netgear RT314 at
http://www.pcextremes.com/reviews/networking/rt314/index.shtml - the
R314 seems to be discontinued but the RT311 ($99 on Amazon) is
basically the same thing but without the extra 100bT ports.
Shiner Bock is about $6 a 6-pack at the local Winn Dixie (or 65c in
the right coke machine) - it's a medium dark "german" style beer
brewed in Shiner, Texas - http://www.shiner.com
Edmund Cramp
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
> Of Mat Branyon
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 3:03 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [brlug-general] Bellsouth DSL Connection
>
>
> About how much do those Alcatel Modems or a couple cases of
> the beer
> cost? You know there is a cafe right down the road from
> where I live
> now that sells that brand of beer. I have never seen it
> before (except
> in the coke machine)
>
> --mat || "First things first -- but not necessarily in that
> order" --
> Dr. Who, "Doctor Who"
>
> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 14:08, Edmund Cramp wrote:
> > 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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