Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 6/19/07, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I recommend DSL Extreme <http://www.dslextreme.com> instead. Their terms
of service are much better than AT&T at the same price, and their help
desk actually knows about Linux. I have posted about them before, you
can search the archives. Here's one post:
http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-list/2006-December/088912.html
The introductory price is only $15/month for the first year.
Looked at the dslextreme.com web site. This generated some questions.
First one: they quote speeds such as 384-1500 kbps down, 128-384 kpbs
up for their standard service. What is the significance of the 1:4 or
1:3 range? Usual rate, exceptional rate on a good day with a
tailwind?
Some people may have poor phone line connections or be distant from the
the central office, which for DSL has the same effect. It reduces the
Signal/Noise Ratio (SNR) which forces a reduction in transmission speed
to achieve the same Bit Error Rate (BER). I happen to have a good phone
line connection and live close enough to the central office that I get
full speed (1.5Mbps) all the time.
Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to test a line beforehand to see
how it will work. Well, actually I do but the phone company wouldn't let
me do it :) I guess a primitive test would be to see if a 56k dial-up
modem will give you full speed. If it can't, then I doubt DSL will either.
One of their FAQs with answer:
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Can I connect more than one computer to my DSL service / Can I use a
router?
• Dynamic / Dynamic-1 connections are designed and supported for only
single connection. If a customer would like to install a third party
router they may do so, but this is not supported. The DSL modem that
the customer is using must be configured in bridge mode and the third
party router must support dynamic connections.
- - - - - - - -
Followed by a link to a place on their site for more information,
which results in
"Server Error in '/' Application."
Gus, do you understand this? (not the web page error, but the
third-party router question)
Not sure what they mean here. The DSL modem is supplied by DSL Extreme,
and there isn't anything to configure, just plug it in. The router part
is something like my Linksys WRT-54G. It does a normal DHCP on the DSL
modem side and just does its thing. I'm guessing that the phrase
"dynamic connections" refers to DHCP.
Gus
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