fatmanskinny
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Re: [Services] DSL Dry loop signal through patch panel??
Just a quick update: all went well.
AT&T brought the line in to our demarc location on the first floor. Then our wiring vendor ran it from there to our office on the second floor and installed an RJ11 plate on our wall so we could plug in the modem.
At first, when the wiring company finished, we were not getting a DSL signal. Then, he said he will try and put the wires "directly on top of AT&T's wiring." Then we were getting DSL sync lights.
On a 6MB / 512k Biz line, we are getting 5 1/2 MB / 414k up. I think that is very good.
We have 5 static IPs if we need them but right now, have the Netopia 3347W configured for wireless access without broadcasting the SSID in addition to locking it down to only see our two wireless MAC addresses.
Also, we have the internal firewall turned on along with the router doing DHCP. In addition, all software firewalls on our two laptops have been turned on as well. Overload?? 
Man, those business routers are quite a bit harder to configure but we got through it with AT&T's help.
Thanks everyone for your feedback.
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tschmidt
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| Glad everything turned out OK.
said by fatmanskinny  : wireless access without broadcasting the SSID in addition to locking it down to only see our two wireless MAC addresses. Neither of those precautions are very effective from a security perspective. Hopefully you are using some form of WPA to protect your Wireless network.
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fatmanskinny
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1 edit | We enabled WPA on the router. I forgot to add that. |
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