[ale] Bye-bye, Telocity/DirectTV

[Chris Woodruff]

If you are here in Atlanta then no it doesn't use PPPoE.  There really isn't
anything you need to do except setup the NIC to fetch an IP via DHCP.  I
have enjoyed AT&T Broadband and have only had 2 outages (5 days each).  Very
fast service to get me up and they even changed out the modem since the old
one was "crap" in the words of the tech guy.  Seems like in the last few
months the service has gotten better since I do not experience short (10-30
sec) blackouts like I did in the beginning.

Chris Woodruff
cwoodruff at worldwindtech.com
(770) 307-8590
(770) 814-9967 fax
----- Original Message -----
From: <jhubbs at telocity.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:29 PM
Subject: [ale] Bye-bye, Telocity/DirectTV


> On September 28, my DSL service went out completely and after two and a
half weeks of spending hours and hours on hold with tech support only to
basically have to keep starting over and over with Tier-1 know-nothings each
time (regardles of how many times I'd talked to Tier-2 people), I decided to
bail and give cable a try.
>
> I have installation scheduled for 11/1.  From what I can tell so far, what
I need to do is take the Internet-side NIC from my Coyoye Linux firewall and
put it into a Windows machine so the installer can set me up, and then I'm
free to move the NIC back to the firewall in order to find joy.  Does anyone
know if AT&T Broadband uses PPPoE or if there are any other issues I should
know about?
>
> It very much appears as though the DirectTV/Bellsouth relationship is
extremely broken.  During this DSL outage, I lost my dialtone and two guys
were at my house the very next day to fix it.  Is it fair to surmise that
Bellsouth simply makes as little effort as they can get away with to repair
DSL service via other ISPs?
>
> - Jeff
>
>
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