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On Sat, 10 May 2003, William H. Magill wrote:
>
> Unless they have changed recently, when you get the Westel ADSL
> Modem, you get a real modem.
> I think they ship you the Motorola Modem when you get a "router."
>
> Phone line on one side and an ethernet jack on the other.... no
> software involved.
> It's a "pure" analog device. (Ok, AtoD Converter, but it's still only a
> modem.)
That's what it looks like. I see no sign of anything that can be
configured. As of now, I just have PPPoE running on my OS X install on my
iBook. It seems to work fine, but for various reasons is not the way I
want to go. In a way, a "dumb" device is probably a good thing, if I want
to set up a Linux/*BSD box as a router.
> The "kit" also includes a bunch of "dongels" (bandpass filters) to put
> on your telephones. Otherwise, they all get to hear the modem's whistle
> at each other.
Yep. they sent me a bunch of them.
> I've had my DSL for a couple of years now, (DCAnet as ISP, with Bell
> Atlantic
> as wire carrier, will tell you how long I've had it.) However friends
> who have gotten
> similar installs in the past year have gotten the "dumb modem."
>
> This is both good and bad. Good: no software to muck with. Bad: can't
> monitor the modem via SNMP, it's dumb.
I guess it is kind of like a double edge sword, but if it does have
problems it would be nice to have at least some on-board diagnostics.
In what might be a dumb question, is there any reason why I
can't/shouldn't use a second modem on a second phone jack (with the same
telephone number) in my house?
Ed C.
>
>
> T.T.F.N.
> William H. Magill
> magill@mcgillsociety.org
> magill@acm.org
> magill@mac.com
>
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