[ale] BellSouth/ATT DSL

[Thompson Freeman]

aaron - it helps, mostly by confirming what I was thinking the  
little Westell box was thinking about.

I appreciate it.

On 06/24/2007 02:55:08 PM, aaron wrote:
> I just set up 14 B$hATT DSL lines with the little Westell
> modems
> last Thursday.
> 
> Despite the repeated incompetent and innexcusable insistence
> of
> B$hATT that you must use Mafia$oft broken windows and
> intersnot
> exploiter to set up your DSL, everything they are saying is a
> totally
> fraudulent lie and you need nothing of the sort. All you need
> is the
> account ID and password.
> 
> We set up and tested all of our 14 lines using Ubuntu and
> Firefox
> via the web interface on the modem itself -- we just plugged
> an
> Ubuntu laptop directly into the modem, opened Firefox, and the
> modem's entry window for account and password info popped up
> automagically.
> 
> We also had no problem getting the DSL active using a gateway
> router by providing the the user ID and password for the
> account
> in its PPOE config.
> 
> BTW, the default password for B$hATT accounts is the 7digits
> of
> the phone number that the account is assigned to.
> 
> HTH!
> peace
> aaron
> 
> On Sunday 24 June 2007 14:39, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> > My girlfriend decided that she wanted internet access at
> home,
> > and chose the $10/month dsl now offered from BellSouth/ATT.
> Of
> > course, I get to set it up, and of course I'm working on
> getting
> > things set up for Linux (Ubuntu specifically, as I think a
> > Fedora setup would be a little heavier maintenence and I'm
> > having challenges with F7 at the moment). BellSouth has
> provided
> > a lovely little Westell modem/router which I get setup with
> my
> > ancient laptop with Windows2000. Attempting to convert to her
> 
> > machine seems associated with loss of the dsl link, but I'm
> not
> > ready to claim that strongly in public. My suspicion is that
> the
> > link loss is further up the chain, but again I cann't prove
> 
> > that. I can find the modem/router with a web browser at
> > http://192.168.1.1:80, although I of course do not have a
> > password for the interface. The interface does show things
> setup
> > correctly tho. I have quickly searched the web for
> documentation
> > on the modem/router and come up quite dry. (I left my notes
> over
> > at her place, or I'd note the model number here - sorry, but
> my
> > bad)
> >
> > I should note that my initial installation of Ubuntu7.04 has
> a
> > glitch in it also, further complicating things.
> >
> > General questions: Does anybody here have experience with
> this
> > setup? Anybody have a possible lead to documentation for the
> 
> > modem/router? (I really don't want to find somebody to
> reverse
> > engineer the setup code provided) Since I could probably use
> a
> > severe beating with a cluebat - any general (hopefully
> useful)
> > commentary.
> >
> > I've got to take her out to dinner with her siblings shortly,
> 
> > and won't be back until late, but any clues/ideas/leads would
> be
> > appreciate for tomorrow's effort.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
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