i have bell south dsl too. and experienced a similar thing a couple days ago. not a total outage, but soooooo slow that i turned everything off overnight (pulled all the power plugs). that seemed to correct it all. and seems to be working fine now. never really fast... especially since i am now wifi in the house so both my computer and iPod Touch can connect.
on a separarate note, i assume you're pretty busy lately ward!? not a big fan of malls this time of year, but if i was, would be at the apple store! best, stuart --- Ward Oldham <woldham at insightbb.com> wrote: > Hey Folks, > > Encountered quite an interesting situation with > Bellsouth lately that > I want to share. > > My wife has Bellsouth dsl and it has been working as > expected for > several months. She has two iMacs connected via > Netgear router. > Bellsouth uses PPPoE and those authentication > settings reside in the > router. > > Two days ago, she experienced an outage in her > service. Called > Bellsouth and they confirmed the outage, corrected > the issue, but she > was never able to access the internet again until > the Bellsouth > technician had her direct connect the dsl modem to > one Mac. The > curious thing was PPPoE was never configured on the > Mac so I > concluded that not only was there an outage in her > service but also > another change: elimination of PPPoE. hmmmmmm > > So I reconnected the router and reconfigured it with > PPPoE off. Still > didn't work so I reset the router. On Netgear > routers (or this one > anyway), the friendly Netgear setup assistant kicked > into gear, > detected the type of network connection as well as > the need to > configure PPPoE which Bellsouth required. I input > the required > information and voila . . . still didn't work. Logic > told me that the > dsl modem directly connected to the iMac without > PPPoE being > configured on the iMac meant Bellsouth no longer > required PPPoE but > the Netgear setup assistant detected otherwise. To > heck with the > setup assistant. I turned off PPPoE in the router > and of course > everything works perfectly. > > Anybody have any similar experiences? Needless to > say, I'm somewhat > suspect as to what Bellsouth is doing on their end. > > Ward Oldham > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be January 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge > Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > Louisville At-home Dads (L.A.D.s) Bringing together stay-at-home fathers, their children and their families. 502-426-5376 LouisvilleLADS-owner at yahoogroups.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
