We subscribed to Verizon DSL ten years ago. Overall the service has been as advertised, 3 Mbps.
All last week we had major problems - system freezes and system down for times ranging from half an hour to several hours. Tech support finally conceded the problem was outside our house. Apparently this was corrected as this Wednesday performance returned to normal. Yesterday a Verizon technician came to the house and confirmed a good connection at the wall outlet dedicated to the dsl modem. He also brought a new Verizon dsl modem noting that the ten year old modem from the original installation was slowly failing. He proceeded to configure it from his laptop and set the user name and password. I now realize it was a mistake to let him do this. We have a dedicated firewall computer between the dsl modem and our lan. pppoeconf run from the firewall computer finds (found) the access accumulator and allows us to set the user name and password. When the new modem is put in place of the ten year old modem this does not work even when the new modem is reset to the factory defaults. Fortunately everything still works with the old modem an since the external problems have been fixed it seems steady as a rock. Still it may be true that the old modem is gradually failing so it seems prudent to replace it but not if pppoeconf cannot find the new modem. Any thoughts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110722220743.ga27...@tomgeorge.info