[ale] BellSouth ADSL Experiences

[Ray Knight - Clientlink]

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> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of joshy
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 5:25 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] BellSouth ADSL Experiences
>
>
> on the general issue of dealing with bellsouth's fast access service can
> be found here:
>
> http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/sdf/h/b/hburgiss/dsl/survival/
>
> it seems that Bellsouth is phasing out DHCP with it's longer lease times
> and always on status in favor of PPP over Ethernet/ATM which 'dials up'
> bellsouth instead of always being connected. (of course it's not really
> dialing anything, so it may be functionally the same). bellsouth only
> supports their own equipment, but they should be able to work with most
> 3rd party equipment (such as Linux boxes running PPPoX or Linksys
> firewall/routers).
>
>

Any provider forcing there customers to use PPPoE is essentially screwing
their customer as the overhead of PPPoE costs anywhere from 5-25% of your
bandwidth.


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