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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:28:10 -0800 (PST) From: Wayne Earl <wayne@qconcepts.net> To: svlug@svlug.org Subject: [svlug] DSL Router question A client of mine recently had UUnet business DSL installed, and as part of the installation, her received a Netopia R7100 SDSL router. While the router has elementary firewalling capabilities, he wanted something a bit beefier. My question is: The interface to the DSL line appears to be a standard ethernet port (Technical diagrams for the router suggest this as well). Is there such a thing as a DSL interface, or is this straight ethernet? If it is ethernet, I can easily replace the router with a real firewall/router(tm). If it is not, is there a DSL interface card supported under Linux? FYI: The UUNet business SDSL offer is sweet. He is paying for only 128k SDSL ($159/month), but up to 1Mbsec is available($599/month). Up to 128 static ip addresses for no additional cost at any speed (they'll give you an entire class C, but you have to justify more than 128 ip addresses). And it's a pretty good bet that you don't have to worry about UUnet going out of business (ahem...Flashcom). === From: svlug@tcu-inc.com Subject: Re: [svlug] DSL vedor shakeout II: PSINet To: Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 01:30:28 -0400 (EDT) Cc: svlug@lists.svlug.org (svlug) I just signed up for telocity, or something like that. I found it on dslreports.com. It supports linux (which I can do myself), 1.5M/128k ADSL, no contract required, and just $25 to send the modem to you, and you ship it back when you cancel service. Static IP also. Sweet for $50. I noticed a lot of DSL companies support Linux these days. I only found one I liked. It was nice the sales person knew what Linux was. When Pacbell called, I couldn't get Linux support and a static ip address, I decided not to use them. The only type of DSl I could get before wasn't much better than the ricochet modem, and it was expensive, so I never bothered. I never had the option of cable modems. ===