dsl modems

dsl modems

[philwh]

There is also a dsl modem that uses a
straight through cat 5 cable.
the speedstream seems to use this kind
of cable.

phil

Re: seeking advice for speeders

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi Chuck,

	I'll answer your questions based on my experience:

<---- snipp ---->
-=>  Am I paranoid, or are some of these things suspicious? He
-=> assures me I will not have to change my ISP when I sign up for DSL. He
	What does he mean by ISP? You could keep your ISP and email address that you're using, but unless it's a free one, why would you want ot continue paying for it, when the DSL includes (at least in my case) several email addresses? The advantage would be to retain the same email address that you have. Technically it is do-able, but economically, not practical.


-=> says the modem is free, no installation fee, no hardware needs to be put
-=> inside my machine.
	Many DSL providers have promotions, in which they waive the installation/modem charges. To my knowledge, all DSL modems are connected to your computer via an ethernet cable... thus you need to have an ethernet card put into your computer (unless you already have one in there). Or, maybe someone knows... Is there a DSL modem that connects via USB? Serial/Parallel ports don't have the throughput to work with DSL.


-=> He says the disk that comes with it has software both
-=> for Windows and for Linux systems.
	 Sympatico has a PPPoE package for Linux that I downloaded from their website, but it was not as fast, small, or reliable as the one  I got from roaringpenguin.com. Though they provide a "solution" for Linux, they told me up-front that I was on my own with it, they would provide no support.

-=> He says I can puyt it on my one and
-=> only line (although I presently have two) and use it without affecting
-=> incoming or outgoing voice calls.
	Yes, it all works on one line. You put a filter on every telephone set connected to the line and one on the modem. The filters for the telephones pass the lower frequencies (I think <4kHz), while the one on the modem passes the upper frequencies (>4kHz), thus separating the frequency band for voice/data.

HTH,

		--terry

Name:	Terry D. Cudney
Phone:	(905)735-6127
E-mail:	terry@wasagacottage.com
Web:	www.wasagacottage.com

DSL modems

[Kirk Wood]

There are three means that I know of to connect your PC to DSL. The first
is that the DSL modem has an ethernet port on it. Actually though most of
these are wired the same as an ethernet hub. (Thus if you then connect it
to a hub it needs to be in either the uplink port, or use a cross over
cable.) The next is a modem that connects via USB port. Then there are
internal varieties.

I would recomend that you ensure you get the ethernet variety. All others
depend on your OS to work properly.

=======
Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net

The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when open.
If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.

Re: DSL modems

[Gregory Nowak]

On the internal kind, what's on
the mounting bracket of thoes,
just a hook up for the phone line, right?
Greg


On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:05:26PM -0500, Kirk Wood wrote:
> There are three means that I know of to connect your PC to DSL. The first
> is that the DSL modem has an ethernet port on it. Actually though most of
> these are wired the same as an ethernet hub. (Thus if you then connect it
> to a hub it needs to be in either the uplink port, or use a cross over
> cable.) The next is a modem that connects via USB port. Then there are
> internal varieties.
> 
> I would recomend that you ensure you get the ethernet variety. All others
> depend on your OS to work properly.
> 
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
> 
> The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when open.
> If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.
> 
> 
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