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Anon | reply to Anon
Re: PPPoE
gammanss said:
DRAT! Unbinding TCP/IP from the NIC didn't solve my spontaneous disconnection problems.
Rather than unbinding TCP/IP, try assigning an IP address to it (e.g. IP address: 10.0.0.1, subnet mask: 255.255.255.0). This should not affect your PPPoE connection, and will prevent Windows looking for a DHCP server, which is likely your problem, as it tends to stall your DSL when it does.
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Anon | BA says PPPoE incompatible with Windows NT 4.0 SP5
Thank you for the suggestion, but it didn't work. I changed the TCP/IP settings as you suggested and rebooted, but within 60 seconds of DSL startup the connection STILL spontaneously dropped.
Yesterday afternoon Christopher Walker from level 2 tech support at Bell Atlantic called to find out how my Friday tech support visit fared, and I gave him an earful. He was very nice but not very helpful: According to him, Bell Atlantic does not support Windows NT Workstation 4.0 service pack 5... they only support SP4!
He also said that a new release of WinPOET, due mid-year (yeah, well, we'll SEE if it's on time), will support NT SP5 *and* Windows 2000. Hopefully, this forthcoming new version of WinPOET will also solve my spontaneous drop problem.
For now, since my "Keep Alive" utility is working flawlessly (two days without a dropped connection until I tried the TCP/IP experiment) and takes up very little bandwidth/CPUs, I am content to wait and see if B.A. can fix this problem. | |
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