Wow, this thread sure has attracted a lot of responses. I just felt that I had to respond to some comments that I read from previous posters. Specifically there was one person who had questions about getting SBC DSL to work on a Mac running OS X, and there were some slightly derogatory comments made about the Mac platform that I should take issue with.
I just set up my SBC DSL connection here at home in San Jose. It's the standard PPPoE login stuff. I am running Mac OS X and the whole thing takes less than 5 minutes. I actually did everything over Airport so that I wouldn't have to change any of my configs. The whole process for Mac OS X is detailed on a single page in the included manual, albeit it is difficult to find with all the other 20 pages of Windoze configuration instructions. The only information that is needed is the initial PPPoE auth info ([EMAIL PROTECTED], sbcyahooreg) and then launch a web browser and the registration pages come up automatically like a captive portal. After you register and pick out your own PPPoE login info, then all that's left to do is to replace the information typed in before into the Network prefs panel. Very easy on a Mac. Very fast. No problems. For the record, it seems that SBC doesn't even include a Mac CD in the kit. All the software that is needed is built into OS X by default. I consider myself very lucky. I have a PC-using friend who installed all the SBC crap and now he gets something like 10 windows that pop up whenever he turns on his computer. haha. Oh, BTW, can everyone to everyone else a favor when replying to messages...Try not to quote entire messages -- quote only the parts that are pertinent to your reply. Thanks! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
