[wplug] cheap DSL in Pittsburgh?

[Michael P. O Connor]

It also setups up your account, it is posable to setup the account over
the phone with verizon ( I did this for a friend of mine that asked me
to setup their DSL and they did not have a CD rom on their computer that
worked)

> 
> > They don't support linux, but once you've got it installed it doesn't
> > matter. I had to, many years ago, borrow the group laptop with
windows on
> > it to setup my dsl.
> > 
> 
> That's bloated flash-looking setup software that comes on the
> Verizon.net CD isn't doing anything magical.  I think it's probably just
> just RARP/TFTP booting the Westel 2100/2200, finding a local RFC1918
> space that's free, enabling DHCP + NAT/PAT and configuring the PVCs for
> PPPoE mode instead of Bridged (which is not what you want).
> 
> A simple tcpdump(8) would reveal a great lot.  I'm sure someone's got a
> web page already setup on how to do it.
> 
> ~Bri
> 
> > [1] http://www22.verizon.com/forhomedsl/channels/dsl/package+price.asp
> > 
> > I've only delt with their technical service a couple times and they were
> > pretty amiable if I remember correctly.
> 
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