[nflug] Verizon dsl

[Robert Meyer]

Verison has been silently switching from PPPoE to direct connections.  I first discovered this when the firewall I installed for my son stopped working.  I did everything in the world to try to get it working and then I hooked up my laptop.  Before I could get to configure PPPoE, my laptop got an IP and I was able to browse the internet.  I reconfigured the firewall to not do PPPoE and it's been working ever since.  I suspect that this doesn't work the same, everywhere.

Cheers!

Bob

> I am currently using Verizon DSL/the slowest option and dry loop (no 
> phone) ($19.95/month).  I paid an extra 14.95 (one time) and they gave 
> me a Westel 327 Modem/Wireless Router (with 4 ethernet ports on it).  If 
> you want this, you may have to ask for it.  They might not mention it.  
> If I keep the account a whole year, the Westel will be mine to keep.  
> I've got a Sunrocket VOIP box plugged into it and it works fine.  
> There's just no way (according to Verizon) to give priority to it when 
> my computer is using a lot of bandwidth, but I haven't done that yet 
> when a phone call was in progress.

> I had a lot of trouble setting it up (even on Windoze) and learned how 
> to do all the settings myself (got the modem manual from the Westel 
> website).  Basically, you set your browser to http://192.168.1.1/
> and you can setup anything you want to - including a whole lot of 
> advanced options I don't understand.   Since it's a web interface, any 
> browser on any OS should work "theoretically".
> At one point, I remember some pages not displaying correctly in Firefox 
> and having to use Internet Exploder.
> The main thing that had me stopped for a long time was that someone told 
> me to check a box that enabled pppoe.  Nothing worked until I turned 
> that off.

> The Westel manual is very good - shows you screens for everything with 
> step by step instructions.  It does *not* try to teach you anything 
> about networking, so you have to know what you want to do and what 
> things mean.  That shouldn't be a big problem for a lot of people on 
> this list.

> Joe




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