[ale] Bellsouth ADSL very slow

[No One]

I checked on the HellSouth ADSL services and was very leery of signing up, just
because of the DHCP/MAC address issue. It's their way of trying to enforce the
'ADSL is for home use/1 user, browse only' paradigm. (sorry about the buzz
word:)).

I have decided on CAIS Internet SDSL instead. The monthly is more (99 vice 60)
but I get 8 static IP's, SMTP mail server support, pri and sec DNS and 2 hours
of wiring (if needed). It's only 192K both ways, but they are expecting me to
use *NIX and run web, news and mail servers. This service is designed for a
small business. I don't have one yet but will probably start hosting/ co-lo
soon.

It's also upgradeable to higher speeds. If anyone's interested, I'll post a
phone/email/URL.

Ed.

Cade Thacker wrote:

> Good Morning,
> This is my first time posting to this list.  I just got on the list about 3
> days ago.  I am excited because not only did I discover a wealth of
> knowledge,  but it seems like a bunch of cool people too. Maybe, just Maybe,
> I will have something to contribute.  (i hope).
>
> Two second note about me,  I have been messing with linux on and off since
> January of 1997.  I would say my skills are slightly above Linux newbie
> level.  I understand most of the ideas, but will be the first to admit that
> I have years to learn.  Althought I have been around networking for the last
> 4 years.  I understand IP, DHCP, etc.  But I have learned the beauty of
> Google.com and deja.com for my linux questions.
>
> We have HellSouth ADSL.  I am trying to run it into my linux box(RH61) and
> then use ipmasq to serve the ADSL to everybody else(about 6 other users).  I
> first set up a modem to mindspring to test out my network and ipmasq.
> Everything worked great.  So I pulled the nic that Hellsouth is using for
> the MAC(from the win box) and put it in the Linux box.  It will pull an IP
> with DHCP,  but ping times are in the thousands, sometimes 10,000s.  It
> works just reeeeeaaaaal slow. Let me stress that it works ,  It resloves,
> and goes places fine if given enough time.    If I then start ipmasq for the
> heck of it.  The users also work, but same thing, real slow(makes sense). We
> have a Win. box that Bellsouth originally set up.  It is working as the
> proxy until I can get the Linux box configured.  It works fine so I know
> that the line works correct. Last note, I waited on hold for an hour
> yesterday so that I can change my MAC with them to a Netgear card that was
> recommended to my by Linux General Store.  So that makes two nics that have
> worked the same so I am pretty sure it can't be the drivers.
>
> Anyway I figured since this is an ATL based listserv (with people from
> everywhere) maybe somebody else has run into this problem.  Loaded RH6.1(it
> was so smooth).  I am in Athens, GA, but I think it is the same as ATL. I
> don't think they are using PPPoe, but I not sure how to check, but it
> appears to be straight DHCP.
>
> Final note,  I am sorry this was such a long post, but I was trying to give
> everybody as much info as possible, so I would give a very clear picture.
> Thanks in advance for all the help.  And of course I will continue
> researching.
>
> Cade Thacker
> averick.com
> Systems Admin
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> right way to spell a word is a very dull man.
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