R. Scott Belford wrote:
When back in Georgia earlier this year, I helped a friend set up his
earthlink dsl connection. It is important to note that the DSL modem
used by earthlink is actually a router. It holds the public ip address
and issues a 192.[168].x.x address to your computer(s.) They use pppoe and
the router cannot be altered to operate as a bridge. I believe that
earthlink is only offering cable service here so far, so this point is
currently moot.
--scott
As I mentioned earlier, I was quite disturbed to find out that my cable
modem has a fix IP address of 66.xxx.xxx.xxx. I turned off my Linksys
router a few times, the ip address stays the same. However, I have had
this new ip address for only two weeks. Perhaps it was too short for
Oceanic to change it, and I will be really anxious to find out. I don't
want a fix ip address to go into my house. Period.
Many security-conscientious Windows users bought a router to serve as an
external firewall. But 99% of them don't change the default password.
So much for the hightened security.
This reminds of the new Office 2003, which allows a 500 MB Word file to
be loaded in one second. When someone tells you that s/he can travel
faster than the speed of light, you will begin to wonder whether that is
true. wayne
