 W8ASATieng gi vay?
join:2000-07-31
Dayton, OH
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Not XP's fault, really It's not XP's fault. The various ISP's around the country, IMHO, should tell their users how to install PPPOE using the built-in wizard which comes with XP. It's easy, simple, and voila.....better yet, get a Linksys BEFSR41 or some other ADSL router and let IT handle the PPPOE chores.
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 rawWar EaglePremium
join:2001-01-17
Madison, AL | said by wb6qwf:
The various ISP's around the country......
Or better yet, the ISPs could just get rid of PPPoE altogether. I like Justin's quote at the end.
said by Justin:
I really dislike PPPoE, and this whole mess is a good example of how it adds nothing to the user's experience except pain. PPPoE is nothing more than a creation of phone companies who couldn't quite get their head around always-on connections, and instead have created a virtual dial tone, and virtual authentication, and lots more things that can go wrong."
It amazes me that they built this mess on top of simple, stable Ethernet.
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W8ASATieng gi vay?
join:2000-07-31
Dayton, OH Reviews:
·AT&T Midwest
| reply to W8ASA
ABSOLUTELY ! ! ! I could not agree with you more. PPPOE is a waste of time, energy, bandwidth, and system resources all the way around. Simple networking techniques, with ADSL as a transport medium, are NOT that difficult to achieve.
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 belawrenceThey'll never let you in
join:2000-08-06
Santee, CA
 ·Vonage
| reply to W8ASA
Re: Not XP's fault, really said by wb6qwf:
.....better yet, get a Linksys BEFSR41 or some other ADSL router and let IT handle the PPPOE chores.
Exactly! With the price of home broadband routers being so cheap now, why even bother with PPPoE software?
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W8ASATieng gi vay?
join:2000-07-31
Dayton, OH Reviews:
·AT&T Midwest
| reply to W8ASA
Router is THE way to go I have a Linksys here at home (roadrunner) and at the office (Ameritech ADSL 1500) and couldn't be more pleased. Easy to setup, not resource hogs, and I can even plug in my laptop here at home to do some work as well. Before getting the router, I used RASPPPOE and it never gave me any problems whatsoever, so the various ISPs that try to force something like Enternet (in my humble opinion) are doing their customers a great disservice. Enternet crashed my computer several times each day until I found DSLR and got the RASPPPOE. C'mon, ISPs, get your acts together and give us the bandwidth we need ! ! !
(did you hear that, Mr. President?)
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