[aclug-L] Re: ADSL, SWBell & Linux

["Jeffrey L. Hansen" <jlhansen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dale,
        Is SKTC coming out of the dark ages now?  My dialup has been
deteriorating for several months now - I only get 26400 now when they used
to be pretty solid with 33600.  I connected to an ISP in Kingman this week
at 56K so I doubt it's my phone line.

jeff

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Dale W Hodge wrote:

> > I do highly recommend ADSL over cable modems.  SWBell has had a few
> > reliability issues here in Dallas.  My ISP is not swbell.net but
> > fastlane.com, but they're only in the Dallas area.
> >
> > Anyway, there should be no problem with Linux.  They may claim that
> > Linux is not "supported" but it works fine.  The ADSL modem comes with
> > a crossover UTP cable but with a standard cable you can hook it to
> > your hub (10Mb/s).  Just get the IP range, netmask, and default
> > gateway from them and configure it just like normal Ethernet.
> 
> As a beta tester for DSL here in Clearwater, I can say that it does
> work with Linux, even if they are using PPPOE (PPP Over Ethernet)
> The service so far is solid - much more so than my dial-up connection
> ever was.  The only complaint is bandwidth, but I think that will
> change once they get another T1 in.  I downloaded the 1st disk of
> Debian-2.1_r4 last nigh
> modem and nearly 7x whayou might get on a 56k dial-up.  I'm sold!
> 
> --dwh
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