AmiGR wrote:
It is a DSL Modem with a router secretly built-in to screw up P2P networks. So I went in and disabled the routing. It is now a pure DSL Modem.
A router is never "secretly built-in to screw up P2P networks", it's there so that you can hook up more than one machine to the internet. You need to configure it, to use P2P networks.
1. You have obviously never dealt with Verizon.
2.
YES it
IS secretly a router.
A. They did not tell me it is a router.
B. It has only 1 Ethernet connector so it looks
just like a normal modem.
C. Their tech support hung up on me rather than tell me if the modem secretly had a router or not.
3. Absolutely
nothing worked on it at first. Not ftp, not irc /dcc send/get/recv, not p2p games, everything was broken except for viewing the web. That is because it is a router and was hiding me behind a
FAKE IP# so nothing could work!
4. Verizon is owned by some big media corp. (read movie studios) and they hate p2p ppl sharing movies.
5. Their router "accidentally" crashes when using p2p networks! In other words it analyzes packets and when it thinks you are using p2p filesharing, it just "crashes" and corrupts data.
6. Verizon gives each user a CD and
DEMANDS that the user install it. The CD contains spyware and bogware (crap that bogs your computer down).
7. In an effort to coerce and intimidate the user into installing the CD, the connection won't work unless you install the CD!! WTF?! Every other DSL connection I ever had worked instantly by plugging the modem into the phone jack, no software or configuring needed.
I found a troublesome way to work around installing the CD after a few days. But average people don't know about this!
p.s. None of this message has anything to do with my LAN not working, which is still a mystery. :-?
