On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Kris Anderson wrote:
Hey folks, I'm getting off cable (Comcast and 6 megabits) and either looking at Qwest DSL w/MSN premium or a service called Clear Wire (Wireless internet). I'm a bit baffled because Qwest says they have a deal that I could get DSL for $19.99 a month for a year. Of course the fine prints MSN is the ISP so forth and so on.
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How I had it previously was Comcast's modem to wireless router (Linksys WRT-54G), a little Linksys switch, FreeBSD and misc. Windows computers happily sharing the connection. Just to confirm, my guess is that this would not be the service to go with since I would love to have my spiffy Linksys Router (WRT-54G) hook to the DSL. And to the WR54G the usual network systems of FreeBSD, and misc Windows computers. If the above isn't going to work then I'm stuck with a different bundle (a few bucks more) that would allow me to do the same thing. I hope. I'm not familiar with the way in which DSL does its connectivity thing. Okay, I saw in a previous question that PPoE is needed with DSL. And I noticed that I could set my WRT54G to utilize PPoE, so maybe MSN ISP & Qwest service will work? So am I right in still thinking that with MSN as the ISP my setup it isn't going to be FreeBSD friendly and that my spiffy little Comcast setup isn't going to work with MSN as the ISP? Most appreciated. Gah, that means I'm probably not going to be needing my little WRT-54G router then. :~( Hope I wasn't to confusiong there.
Your FreeBSD system will work fine. You login credentials get entered into the DSL router/modem. If you want to do some webhosting, etc out of your home, spend the extra money and utilize a *real* ISP. Even Qwest.net supports static IP addresses (up to a /26).
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