Re: New ADSl connection & Router?

["William Corbett" <corbett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger,
If it's with Bellsouth, GOOD LUCK!  Tomorrow another company is coming in to
give me a presentation on a Frac T1, cause I can't get the BellSouth and the
piece of $#@% Cayman router to work for my connection.  (I know, I know,
I've never heard of Cayman either)

First of all, I need a Multi-Nat capability on the router, Cayman won't do
it.  Even though the much cheaper router I'm using now with my current
connection will.  ???

And, on top of that, the Cayman won't let me into it, even with the serial
connection.  I can no longer telnet in, cause the tech support had me change
the IP address of the router to one of my purchased IP addresses.  (I told
him what was gonna happen)  There seems to be a bug in the router software
which should let me in via Hyperterminal.  And, the Bellsouth techs know
(far) less than I do, which is scary.  And that's after you've waited 45
mintes, at least, for an answer on the tech support line.  I've had 4 techs
out here to fix line problems, each one said "No wonder it wouldn't work, it
was (4 different things).  It's working now".

Bellsouth won't give me a Wan IP address, they say it's dynamic??  Even
though I've purchased a block of static IP's.  They want me to use the
(routable) IPs on my internal lan.  I keep telling them that's crazy.  Why
are they burning routable IPs on an internal Lan????  That's what NAT is.

I purchased a Netopia ADSL router and Bellsouth won't even provide the
information I need to configure it.  They say they will only support the
Cayman router.  I tell them I don't want support, just information.  Netopia
offers good support, they just can't get the information needed to set up
the router.

Enough ranting about my problems....BellSouth is FIRED, phones and all !!
Good luck with your connection, and I hope it's not with BellSouth. If it's
a simple connection (no server), it will probably work.  I just hope you
don't have a problem and need technical assistance.  If you do, it ain't at
Bellsouth.

I'm not soliciting advice, it's not going to work...just venting.

AS/Resources, Inc.
William A.(Tony) Corbett
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Developer
http://www.asresources.com
corbett@asresources.com
404-784-4737