[ale] BellSouth and ADSL (again)...

[Jim Kinney]

>         Now...  They are trying to get ADSL installed.  BellSouth is
> insisting that they will not install an external ADSL device but must
> install an internal ADSL board.  The board is a Speedster 3060 made
> by "Efficient Networks, Inc." <http://www.efficient.com/>.  Their
> excuse is that the ADSL gets disconnected by voice calls with external
> ADSL modems.  ?????  Sounds like a ploy to duck any attempts to get Linux
> on their precious ADSL lines where they might have to actually support
> someone with something more sophisticated and WindBlows.
> 

That's crap. Insist on the 3com boomerang nic and the Alcatel "modem".
It's a great combination. What they don't want to tell you about are the
numbers of stupid NT/9x users who would plug the ethernet line from the
Alcatel box into their mini-hub and crash their boxes and cause
countless wasted support hours trying to get that combo to work. The
DHCP server is pegged to the MAC address of the device. When 2 different
MACs would show up with the same IP, their routers would have problems.
Stupid windows people. :(-
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Jim Kinney		Educational Technology Specialist
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Emory University	jkinney at emory.edu