DSL Woes, part Deux

[spihunter]

The DSL provider uses static IP assigning, direct routing and no password.

It sounds like your new ISP is some guy down the street running the whole show out of his basement :-D

I agree with spiffy, a router will save you as lot of headaches. I havent had to touch mine for about a year!

[spihunter]

The router logs into your ISP for you after
you configure it. It doesnt matter if you have a PC, MAC, amiga, etc... . I dont know why your ISP would not
be using PPPoE unless they werent really providing DSL. If its a ISDN line like spiffy sugested then maybe you have to log in to a Remote acceses server. I still dont understand the no password part.

[spihunter]

@samdu

Bellsouth doesnt offer a static IP here so I switched
to earthlink. I tried to run a web server for awhile
but earthlink went down so much it was pointless.

[spihunter]

@D

I wish I could tell you that the router would work.
It seems like they gave you all the info needed
to hook up. I 'am using MIami 3.2 to get online
through the router using DHCP.

[spihunter]

@-D-

I'm using a linksys and it works fine. I bought it for 90 bucks a year ago!!. I've messed with some of the advanced settings on it and I'm suprised how much
you can do these days with a cheap router/static IP and a half way decent machine.