On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:07:35 +0530 Arjun Asthana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am using the D-Link DSL-502T router provided by MTNL. Yours might > not be Well....I'm on BSNL Broadband now..... The Modem given to me is a Chinese make HUAWEI, model SmartAX MT800; a beautiful piece looking like two cupped hands holding each other. The bottom part is green and the top is white. Also has a stand for keeping the modem upright. Power supply is separate and so also the splitter. Connection is through a RJ45 cable to my network card. Setup was extremely simple, As root, I ran 'pppoeconf'. It detected my modem, got the IP nos. etc. asked me if I wanted to give the IPs for DNS resolving or it should take from the service provider. I did not know any IPs for DNS so I told it to take from the service provider. Then I was asked for my username and password. After this it wanted to know whether I want the modem to connect on power-up. I said yes, and there I was, after a reboot, happily surfing, as a user. I checked up, the /etc/ppp directory had some new files - chap-secrets, pap-secrets, ppp_on_boot and resolv.conf. Next, some measurements. Through syanptic, I downloaded Mozilla-firefox. Some dependency files were also downloaded, a total of 14160.5kB (capitalB). The download took exactly 8mins or 480secs. So, the average speed was 14160.5/480=29.5kB/s. BSNL claims broadband speed of 256kbps. Taking 1B=8b, 29.5kB/s * 8 = 236kbps, which looks quite close to the claim. Hope my maths is right. -- K.Ghosh 093 910 58 749 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux user No.301508 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
