Anon | Re: PPPoE
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was about to take my ADSL modem and fling it across the room the next time I hung in the middle of playing Unreal Tournement or had to wait a minute to a minute and a half for a web page to refresh.
Now (with all the necessary tweeks from Speedguide.net - do them, you'll be amazed) I am surfing like never before. Did a download test from Microsoft (Links LS 2000 Demo - a 42MB file) and did it in under 5 minutes (MS appears to be geared for high speed links).
My only beef with the service had been with this "sleeping modem" problem and once TCP/IP was "unbound" everything is a ok.
Thanks again to whomever found this fix, you saved me more aggravation than you know.
FYI - anyone looking for a great personal firewall solution that is free to boot check out www.zonelabs.com. This is a work in progress but you'll be amazed the number of port scans I receive every hour not to mention all the unauthorized requests software on your PC makes. We are even looking into implementing and enforcing it for all our users in our organization who have xDXL or Cable and are dialing in to our VPDN (Virtual Private Domain Network).
The ADSL experience is great. The ATM one will be better, especially once they lightup all that Dark Fiber that runs right by our homes! |
