[ale] OT: BellSouth FastAccess DSL

[Jim Lynch]

I use the Linksys box.  Works just fine.  I had a D-Link 701 that also
worked but the powersupply died and I figured that special switching PS
was probably as expensive as a new Linksys.  It works without a hitch. 
I've got two Linux boxes, a Win98 box and a hardware VPN that I connect
to it.  THey won't help you configure it, but there wasn't much to the
configuration.  Be sure to keep a windows machine around with their
software on it so when the line goes down you'll have something to
demonstrate that it isn't working.  If you're on the phone and they ask
you to test this or that and you tell them you're beind a Linksys
firewall with a Linux system.  You'll probably find them less than
helpful.  Fortunately my only outages were brief and back up before I
could even get to a tech.

Jim.

Fulton Green wrote:
> 
> Figured it's been a few months since someone asked this, so here goes ...
> 
> I'm now thinking of getting BellSouth's FastAccess DSL service. Yes, I know
> that there are Linux-friendlier DSL services out there, and yes, I know that
> the soon-to-be-renamed AT&T Comcast serves up cable modem service in my
> 'hood.  I have my reasons for going w/BellSouth in this case. And it also
> now appears that they are shipping Ethernet-connected modems by default, as
> opposed to their earlier policy of shipping USB-connected modems, which was
> my primary objection to BellSouth the last time I was in the market for
> broadband 'net service.
> 
> So for those of you out there using BellSouth for DSL stuff:
> 
> - Will a Linksys cable/DSL router (recent security problems notwithstanding)
>   or some other similar routing device be sufficient for my LAN, or will I
>   really need to spend the extra $10/mo. (+ equipment) for the multiple
>   computer service option that BellSouth offers?
> - I know that more recent DSL routers include PPPoE support.
> - Anything else I need to know?
> 
> Many TIA.
> 
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