[ale] Re: speedfactory dsl router setup

[Geoffrey]

Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> If that's the case (and I'm not saying it's not, I'm just genuinely 
> curious), and Bell South is just providing the copper, then why does it 
> have to be PPoE?  I thought that PPoE was a requirement [from BS to SF] 
> for the high speed service.

The ppoe requirement is based on the type of hardware on the Bellsouth 
end.  BellSouth is making it cheaper for the ISPs to use that type of 
connectivity verses non-pppoe hardware, thus the reason you're stuck 
with pppoe.

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Until later, Geoffrey