RE: New ADSl connection & Router? -- MIDRANGE-L

Tony:
I think from other posts I have seen from you, you are in the ATL area, as
am I.  We too had BellSouth for DSL.  Way back when BellSouth used a
"bridging" arrangement where your NIC card talked directly to the DHCP
server to get an address.  That was cool because you got a 12 hr lease on
the address and as long as you weren't down for more than 12 hrs, you
basically had a static IP address.  I still have this arrangement on my home
DSL line (in Marietta) and it is rock solid.  when we moved our office back
in December of 2000  BellSouth did a horrible job in the transition.  We
were without DSL service for about 4 weeks, even though we gave them 2
months warning that we were moving.  Of course we got the Telco run around.
After finally getting installed we came to discover that our old bridged
connect was history...... welcome to PPPoE.  Well, PPPoE sucks.  We were
down more than we were up, and could barely stay connected for more than
8-10 hrs at a time.  Needless to say, it was very difficult to run servers
because it was a full time job just to keep the Internet DNS servers updated
with the ever changing IP address.  We begged and pleaded w/BellSouth just
to get the old type of service and they said absolutely not.  I worked with
our rep and she tried to get us to beta a new "business DSL" offering, but
they could never commit to a date.  We decided to dump BellSouth totally and
got service with New South.  They put in a Full T1, and split 10 channels
out for voice and 14 for data (internet).  The overall cost was about what
we were paying for 17 voice lines (since we have internet access we did not
need all the voice lines anymore) and 2 DSL lines.  We are happy with New
South except we had a 3 day outage last week, of coursed caused by
BellSouth's T1 going down.  At least now we have static IP address and are
using a CISCO 2501 router.

I have used Dlink and Linksys DSL routers with Bellsouth and have had good
results with both.  At home I am using a Linksys and have installed the
Linksys and DLink at clients.  If you do not need to run any servers then
PPPoE can work for you, but it is still not ready for prime time.  If you
like, feel free to call me and maybe I can tell you I configured the Linksys
and DLink routers with BellSouth DSL.  At least maybe I can point you in the
right direction.

Regards,
cjg

Carl J. Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
550 Kennesaw Avenue, Suite 800
Marietta, GA  30060
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of William Corbett
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:16 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange. com
Subject: Re: New ADSl connection & Router?


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


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