[ale] Screwed by PPP0E

[James P. Kinney III]

None of the Speakeasy accounts I or my clients have use PPPoE. I have 2
ADSL (6M/768k "bare", 3M/768 shared) both with static IP's and PPPoE is
nowhere in the setup.

PPPoE at Speakeasy is only used for the non-static IP connections.

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 08:47 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I came into my remote office today to discover that Speedfactory had
> switched me over to PPPOE.  Apparently they sent one of my partners an
> email and I've not received it.  This causes pain because the only
> reason why I've not switched to PPPOE and their faster speed before was
> because I could not afford the downtime. 
> 
> They told me that everyone was forced to go to PPPOE.  Is this true? 
> What about Speakeasy.  
> 
> I will add this. <flamebait>The only reason I've not switched to
> BS</flamebait> is because of the level of support I get from these
> guys.  They helped me setup PPPOE on Linux twice.  BS would say "Linux
> is not supported".  They've returned my calls and have called me back
> when things began working again.  Now since I'm forced to go  PPPOE my
> only thing keeping me with SF is the support.  Does SE force PPPOE?  
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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