Anyone have any comments on Earthlink DSL???

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

First, 
There is a very wide disparity between the different DSL services. There 
also has been some discussion about the reliability of DSL (at least 
residential). 
WRT: Supporting various OSs. This means that their reps will not assist 
you in any problems which might be confirgurational. In other words, if 
your dhclient does not work and you are not running Windows or 
MacOS, then it's your problem.

WRT: The Linksys BEFSR41. I am very pleased with mine. I've got 5 
systems on my home network, 2 systems have static IPs (because I 
have some ports forwarded), and the other 3 are dynamic. That unit also 
supports PPPoE as well as IPsec. I have 2 (very minor) problems with it.
1. My SSH sessions time out. Their support people emailed me a 
solution which didn't work. I have not taken time to followup on it. 
2. The host name is not captured in their connection list when the host is 
a Linux system with dynamic IP. It does capture the host name of the 
Windows system, so it appears to be a Linux DHCLIENT issue more 
than a Linksys issue. 

There are a couple of limitations:
1. It only allows a single VPN connection. 
2. It's logging facility does not provide the informaiton one might want in a 
firewall.  
On 26 Oct 2000, at 11:37, Henry Smith wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Am considering getting DSL from Earthlink/Mindspring, but I got to
> wondering if anyone on the list might have any comments/experience on their
> DSL service which they might like to share? 
> 
> At first glance, it seems like a pretty good deal $39.95/mo for what
> appears to be ADSL (up to 1.5 Mbps down, 128 Kbps up) but they say they
> support Win9X/Mac while other OS' "may be configured". There is a $99 self
> install fee as well. 
> 
> I was thinking of using a Linksys router as the interface with the DSL
> modem and then setting up a small RH6.0 box to act as E-mail server. (May
> go with the TZO.com service instead - still not completely thought out on
> best approach for this.) SOHO LAN has 5-6 PC's on it with 4-5 users with a
> mix of Linux, Wintel and one Mac G4 at current stage.
> 
> Any comments on this as a viable arrangement?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> 
> Regards,	
> 
> Henry
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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Boston Linux and Unix user group
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