<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Frank Pineau wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid1097510852.5335.2.camel@zanzibar"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 10:47 -0500, Phillip T. George wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Even with business class service (DSL, that is), current/new accounts need to use PPPoE. They stopped allocating via straight DHCP quite some time ago (I'm using a business class SBC DSL account, and I work for SBC). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">OUCH. Personally I prefer Cox cable. DSL seems to suck, especially when its PPPOE. -Phillip </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I dunno, I have SBC and my 3Mb/512kb is pretty nice, with speeds comparable to cable and I don't have to share the bandwidth with everyone in my neighborhood. Plus, I have a /29. The PPPoE aspect is handled by the Cayman Netopia bridging router they gave me. </pre> </blockquote> Frank, Interesting...Where are you located? DSL just never has seemed to work very well here...drops the connection a lot--at various locations, not just one. The system was down most of the day on Friday for a lot of people in fact... normally its just annoying because the modem needs to be reset at a lot of locations. -Phillip </body> </html>