[NTLUG:Discuss] Very basic DSL questions

[Jack Snodgrass]

I'd suggest using a windows box to do the original testing and setup.
Then worry about using linux or maybe get one of those linksys DSL/Cable
routers/firewalls.

If you try the linux or vmware/windows or something else first and can't
get it to work... you won't know if it's the DSL line or the OS.

jack



----- Original Message -----
From: <ddaupert at csc.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 8:38 AM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Very basic DSL questions


> Sorry to be soooo simple, but this is my first time thru, and I'm not yet
> very network savvy.
> I've recently been informed I can get DSL in my area (SW Fort Worth) thru
> SWBell. I've
> listened to the traffic on this group about August.net closing off to new
> customers due to
> SWBell's biz practices, and that doesn't lessen my anxiety much. Anyways,
> here goes.
>
> SWBell has a "special" for $49.+/month, equipment is "free" and the
> self-installation kit
> is "free," but only for windows. They'll charge me a couple hundred for a
> technician
> installation. Questions: can I just get the self-installation kit, run
> windows in vmware, do
> setup, then switch over to linux and configure? Are there any gotchas I
> need to know about?
>
> I hear people talking about static IPs, but I *think* this would only be
an
> issue if I were
> going to run a web server or mail server or whatever, right? I'm not
> planning on running
> any servers on my system. It seems to me they really sock it to you for
> static ips. I had
> hoped to go thru august.net for isp. I am now an earthlink customer, after
> mindspring
> got into bed with earthlink, after pipeline got bought out by mindspring.
> Earthlink wants
> to charge $67.50/month for dsl plus static ip, and on top of swbell
wanting
> $49.+ plus
> their ip fee -- holy cripes. I guess I should just take my beating without
> complaint, tho;
> for 50 Xs the speed of dial up; let's see, I pay $21/month for dial up, 50
> times that would
> be Yikes! $1000/month. $120 or so sounds like a deal!
>
> dennis
>
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