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RE: [PLUG] DSL, Bell Atlantic, and Me
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Hi Bob and all,
For the record, DCANet does not use PPPoE. PPPoE and DHCP are
the two popular methods of assigning dynamic IP addresses to
residential DSL customers. PPPoE has a much larger following than
does DHCP because it scales better.
We (DCANet) decided to use static addresses for all DSL customers
because many of our customers want to have a static address,
and PPPoE support tends to be spotty outside the Wintel world.
DCANet residential DSL includes up to 6 static IP addresses,
a POP/imap e-mail account, and a 13MB members.dca.net personal
web page.
-Andrew White
DCANet
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Bob Razler wrote:
> Joe:
>
> I have bellatlantic and you should know they use PPPoE. I am not sure if
> every ISP that serves you will use it as well. I thought that here in
> Philly that you can choose a DSL provider, but its all really just the same
> connection. I might be wrong.
>
> I have never even tried configuring my linux box for PPPoE.
>
> Bob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of William H. Magill
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 2:14 PM
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org; JWelsh@ConsecoDirect.com
> Cc: plug@phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] DSL, Bell Atlantic, and Me
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 10:48:13 -0400
> > From: "Joseph B. Welsh" <JWelsh@ConsecoDirect.com>
> >
> > I am hoping some one can help me out.
> >
> > I founf out that my wife is getting me a Bell Atlantic DSL connection
> > for my birthday (cool present). However, she being
> > a computer newbie who is still in the windows world dosen't know our
> > home network is run on Linux with ip masq ing and firewalling.
> > She also dosn't know about Bell Atlantic reputation.
> >
> > My question is this.
> >
> > I f I wanted to go with DCA.net.
> > Do I install the Bell Atlantic Stuff, get it working correctly, then
> > call DCA?
> > Call DCA first?
> > Stick with my dialup because I have it set up and working great? (just
> > kidding!)
> >
>
> Definately.... call DCA first!
>
> Depending upon where you are, they will probably set you up via Covad
> rather than NorthPoint (formerly Verizon, formerly Bell Atlantic.)
>
> It used to be pretty simple to call Bell Atlantic and tell them who
> you wanted as ISP. Not anymore. From what I can tell, all calls now start
> with the NorthPoint operation, which is a competitive ISP company, as
> opposed to starting with Verizon "InfoSpeed" which is a tariffed part of
> the regulated Company.... it DOES make a difference, a BIG difference.
>
> Things have changed, and continue to change, very rapidly in the DSL
> market. Anything which was true 6 months ago is probably NOT true any more.
> (Except for the horror stories about the lack of training of technicians.)
>
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> T.T.F.N.
> William H. Magill Senior Systems Administrator
> Information Services and Computing (ISC) University of Pennsylvania
> Internet: magill@isc.upenn.edu magill@acm.org
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>
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