Re: Can a bad Etherlink card effect browser ability to access the net?

Brian K wrote:


Earthlink.com Tech services has escalated my issue over to the engineers dept. they're going to check the server settings for my account. Also, they may send a field test rep out to my house.
Just out of curiosity, How might I log into my DSL box and verify the DHCP server is turned on ? Shouldn't I invoke Windows Computer Management > Services and Applications > Services > DHCP Client and see if this was disabled first?

Another thing has occurred to me. When I had the old Netopia box, to avoid paying for another line extension to the phone company, I ran a 15' phone cord, which came with the Netopia, from the jack to the DSL box. The phone cord that came with the ZyEXL is maybe 4' tops. So, rather then continuing using the old Netopia phone cord... I am biting the bullet and putting another extension close to my DSL modem. I'm not going to tap into the original extension the distance of phone wire would be doubled from the NID (spelling?). I'm going to run the wire from the NID or is it NAD and terminate with an extension by the box.

I was wondering, instead of just using the RED and GREEN cond, connected to the RED and GREEN terminals, would it provide more conduction to add the yellow and black cond. too? Or, would that not work or cause a problem sending the Verizon gods breathing fire upon my humble self?

Either way a shorter distance from the NID to the DSL box can't hurt.


There can be 18,000 feet of wire, between you and the CO. Is another
25 feet going to make a difference ?

I'm a little curious about the two ADSL modem devices.

For example, in this thread, they mention PPPOE coming from the
Netopia Cayman 3300 series.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9643208

I've had the same DSL setup for a number of years, and the modem I've
got, still talks PPPOE. To use the modem with a single PC, I need a
software solution in place, that understands PPPOE when it is seen
on the Ethernet cable coming from the modem.

Soon after I got the ADSL modem, and saw what a piece of crap that
kind of software solution was, I got a router. The router had PPPOE
termination as a feature (virtually all of them do that now). The
LAN side of the router talks "ordinary" Ethernet, while the cable
running between the router and the ADSL modem, is PPPOE (point to
point protocol over Ethernet).

It is possible the networking setup offered by the new modem, is different.
The ZyXEL P-660, if a combined modem/router, has no reason to use
PPPOE on the Ethernet, since it has the "router" in the name. It
has to terminate the PPPOE protocol, before it can "route" anything.

That means, you cannot slap the ZyXEL P-660 in place of the Cayman,
without at least thinking about whether the situation has changed.

Just for reference, this is my (old-fashioned) ADSL setup, with
PPPOE protocol as the only output option of the ADSL_modem.
If a newer modem was used, there would no longer be PPPOE.

--- filter --- phone
/
basement_demarc -------X ----
Jack \ (PPPOE)
--- ADSL_modem ---------- 4 port router
(no router) WAN with PPPOE term.
| | | |
Up to four computers
LAN side of box

The filter passes low frequencies to the phone (like 4KHz or below).
A filter is used, before each telephone. The full bandwidth is
available to the ADSL, since there is no filter in that path.

In this picture, the red color is the frequencies the analog phone
uses. The green and blue, shows the range of frequencies the ADSL
modem uses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ADSL_frequency_plan.svg

Paul
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