PPPoE( old news - 11:23PM Thursday Feb 24 2000) tags: dsl PPPoE is still causing problems for folks. We still think PPPoE is a nasty hack and a step in the wrong direction, and whomever gave it the marketing spin that it "preserves the dialup experience" needs their head examined. (update: we've added a permanent PPPoE Forum). 1. WinPoet 2.0 (required for Windows 2000) is not widely available. You can find it at the EarthLink FTP site Here. Or Robert in Germany who has hacked together a tiny windows PPPoE driver, Here is his site. 2. If you just got a new Bell Atlantic line, and get Error 629, it is because your profile has not been built yet by the ISP.. hardly a very informative error message. 3. With PPPoE and WinPoet, be careful not to bind any TCP/IP to your network card! WinPoet handles all network interaction. Check your control panel, Network Settings, and look for a line like "TCP/IP -> (your ethernet adaptor card)". If you are on PPPoE and suffering disconnects or freezes every 10 minutes, remove this binding. 4. Some people are reporting that they need to restart WinPoet, or their PC, every now and again to regain normal operation. Others say that closing applications keep invoking dialog boxes asking if you wish to disconnect. 5. People report PPPoE WinPoet does not work with some firewall software like Conseal private desktop. 6. Asian language versions of windows (for example, Japanese) are incompatible with WinPOET - if you are not using the latest US build of windows (patched of course, reinstalled if necessary) you are unsupported. Seems to us, PPPoE was not built to make life for the users much easier.
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 | Anon | Re: PPPoE & PacBell Why did PPPoE come into existence if it is so crappy? I just ordered PacBell DSL and I hope to God they don't use PPPoE. I've never used it, but it sounds like a pain! Why would someone want to have to dial in to an always-on connection? Are there any ways around it and what are the chances of it going away anytime soon?
-david lindsay
dave.lindsay@usa.net | |
|  | | Anon | Re: PPPoE & PacBell I have Earthlink and they use PPPOE (winpoet). It is kind of a pain because i really would like an "always on connection" and the PPPOE really limits my sharing capabilites. (very few hardware nat/firewall/sharing boxes support pppoe) Also Winpoet doesnt have a "connect at startup option" but i think some other pppoe clients might.
I have heard some reports that Pacbell does use pppoe (enternet client i believe). Anyone else hear this? | |
| | | | Anon | Re: PPPoE & PacBell I have Pacbell enhanced DSL, and it does NOT use PPPoE. However their basic service does. I talked to one of their techs the other day to confirm this. And let me tell ya, they are NOT EVEN CLOSE to happy about it.. All of the techs seem to HATE it. | |
| | | | | Anon | Re: PPPoE & PacBell Well...you must have at least 5 PC connected for that 5 STATIC IP you paid for. By the way, how is th D/L speed is like when you have 5 PC D/Ling simultaneously with a max 6Mbits account. | |
| | | Anon | I got Pacbell ADSL installed yesterday and Yes on the basic service they use PPPoE. I had a few problems wuth the service locking up. I'm getting about 30-45KB/s download speeds. I thinking of upgrading to the 5 Static IP address for $90 a month. | |
| | | Anon | PPPoE came into being, really, for a number of reasons. I read the writeup on it over at the www.redbacknetworks.com website. PPPoE was jointly developed between RedBack and UUNet.
Despite the problems with it noted on this board, it's existence is really helping to spread the usage and adoption of xDSL formats. Why? Because most people (not power users, but everyday folks) would NOT go to the bother of having to configure ATM adapters and other kinds of arcane configuration setups for DSL.
PPPoE allows users --Windows users-- to use the familiar Dial-Up-Networking interface that they've used since Win95 came into being. There's very little configuration that has to be done by the user in this scenario.
Yes, it also allows ISP's the ability to proportion their bandwidth with much more flexibility than static, dedicated circuits. In other words, in the dedicated circuit configuration, the bandwidth is always provided whether it's being used or not. This is a MUCH more expensive way of doing business, and really is cost-prohibitive for most ISPs. With PPPoe using the "dial-up" scenario, bandwidth can be traffic-managed more effectively. In other words, smaller bandwidth allocations can be made for the same number of users because each circuit is not dedicated. This is how analog dial-up service works.
Of course, ISP's have to carefully note what their peak demands are going to be and purchase bandwidth accordingly. Nothing will tee-off customers more than not having the bandwidth they've been promised when they need it. Cable already suffers from this, as it is a shared medium.
I don't understand why the complaints about not being "always on" is troublesome...If you have your pc running, and have dialed up with PPPoE, then you're on until you quit or shutdown. What good is it doing you to have a connection that's on with a pc that's off?
For those who complain about password saving, etc., and no auto-connects...here's a couple of options:
"Gator" www.gator.com --a great, free utility for keeping track of names/addresses/passwords, etc.
"Push the Freakin Button"...a great FREE utility
that will "push" dialog buttons for you automatically, like "Connect", etc. I use it to totally automate file downloads and many other functions. Great for dismissing shareware nag screens, too.
»hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis···ry=Utili ties&DispSubcategory=System+Utilities&DispTitle=Push+The+Freakin%27+Button%21&refresh_url= ftp%3A//zdftp.zdnet.com/pub/private/sWlIB/utilities/system_utilities/freakinb.zip&Fcode=00 0Q4I&Category=utilities&Subcategory=system_utilities&b=
You can use PTFB to autoconnect the WinPoet for you, assuming it will save your logon/password.
I would encourage everyone to go to the www.redbacknetworks.com website and read the PPPoE faq. It doesn't mean you'll have to like it, but you will come away knowing why, from an economic and aesthetic standpoint, it's being adopted. You'll see how existing local/regional ISP's can use it to remain competitive with the larger national types on price. It allows them to keep the dialup model they already have in effect for their analog customers. And you'll understand why BellAtlantic and others are adopting the RedBack router system. It utilizes a management system for billing as well as all the data traffic it handles/routes. WindRiver wrote the WinPoet software in conjunction with RedBack and UUNet. | |
| | | | Anon | Re: PPPoE & PacBell...the answer. One of the attractions of an "always on connection" is the remote access to my network, PPoE makes that impossible.
The reason PPPoE is attractive is that is gets around the circuit switched limitations of ATM. The telcos just can not give up circuit switched technology. If the last mile link was IP your ISP would not care if you were connected or not since they only need to route packets, not reserve bandwith of an idle ATM virtual circut.
PPPoE is even more oninous when you consider the AOL Time Warner deal. If this goes through we have a media company owning last mile connectivity. Their interest is in delivering "eyeballs to advertisers" allowing individuals to publish over the interent is not in their business interest.
/Tom | |
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operagost
join:1999-08-02
Phoenixville, PA
| .. and ready to give the shaft to eager consumers who are tired of dialing up! This after decades of holding back progress in telecomm, sucking as much money as they could out of ISDN (1960's technology) before reluctantly releasing ADSL. Now they want you to take a 5-10% performance hit via PPPoE so that you can't run any servers and take a few megs extra bandwidth from the poor old phone company. PPPoE requires somewhat less administration too (once you actually get it working), so they can hire guys who were flipping burgers last month instead of experienced techs.
I have a static IP with BA which I'm sure to lose when I move in a few months. That's okay, they'll lose a customer. | |
| | | Anon | I have a Mac and didn't go with PacBell because they use PPPoE. Instead, I'm opting for PSN's DSL service which is only $10 more/month than pacbell. Instead of using winpoet or any other PPPoE gateway software, invest $150 in a router - one capable of negotiating PPPoE. I bought a Linksys etherfast and I believe it stores the logon info in flash rom so when you want to connect, it handles logon for you. No software. Voila! | |
| | Anon | Re: PPPoE DRAT! Unbinding TCP/IP from the NIC didn't solve my spontaneous disconnection problems.
When I moved into my new house a couple of months ago, I had to change from the reliable static IP "black Westell modem" I had at my condo to the DHCP "white Westell modem" that's used by the central office near my house.
Well, the "white modem" has been nothing but trouble since Day One, with spontaneous disconnects every couple of minutes... much more frequent than the 10 minutes reported above. I've also spent countless hours on the phone waiting on hold to speak to *clueless* Bell Atlantic technicians.
When I saw this article, I got all excited that salvation was at hand. I immediately went to Network 'Hood and saw that TCP/IP was indeed bound to my network adapter, so I unbound it and rebooted. Sadly, I still get "das Boot" every few minutes... the unbinding seemed to have no effect.
Any other suggestions??  | |
| | | Anon | Re: PPPoE Hello,
I have DSL with ameritech, and I am pretty sure that they use PPPoE (they use an ATM card that has to log onto the network like a fast dial-up connection, I guess that's PPPoE).
It bugged me for a little while, because I had a cable modem before this, and that was straight to an Ethernet NIC. That seemed to be the most flexible way to go.
Anyway, I was annoyed by the "dial-up" aspect of it all, and the way that I solved it is by putting it on my wifes machine, and using Sygate (which I was using with the cable modem anyway).
Now, I don't see the dial-up part of the connection, and it feels more like an always on connection.
The other thing that I did was install a keep alive utility on my wifes machine, but I unistalled that after a while, because I really had no need to keep the connection constantly on, and it was safer to have it log off (like an added form of protection).
I havn't had any login problems or any random disconnect problems. I do notice that the threshold for disconnecting is pretty short, like 10 minutes of inactivity.
Other than that, the connection has been smooth, reliable, and as fast as I am paying for for the entire time I have had it.
-Mike | |
| | | | Anon | Re: PPPoE I have WinPoet and hate it. When my term is up I will switch to a static IP ISP. Why?
1. WinPoet will lock up my brand new Win98 SE 733Mhz HP 100% of the time within 24 hours necessitating a reboot. Usually after 10-12 I must reboot, that is if I don't just lock up. Thankfully this is a personal not a business computer. I somehow think it is NOT an Intel, Hewlett-Packard nor Microsoft problem as everything else works fine (apps, games, musicmatch, CDR, DVD etc.). Remaining factor : WinPoet.
2. WinPoet requires me to log on after these daily reboots. I was sold "always on" service. Then why do I have to logon to get it to work (DSL dialup looks JUST like regular modem dialup but takes only about 3 sec., unless you have to do it again, and again...)? I must keep track of names, passwords and all that good stuff. Then reboot and try again if I mistype something. "WinPoet Preserves the dialup experience" my butt. Always-on does not mean logon! I'm just waiting until I get a DSL busy signal or whatever when they run out of IP's like dialup runs out of modems on Sat. night (hey it's happened to me on Mindspring and A-NET, as well as all the freebies).
Why would my ISP make me use this crappy software?
A) To enable oversubscription of IP addresses. (Although I recycle mine to keep at least ONE of theirs allocated to me 24/7)!
B) Bandwidth metering (by time, or MB). Seems like a fair concept but I resent the back-door sneaky setup approach the WinPoet (drug) dealers use. Whatcha wanna bet that sometime they unilaterally inform users (via an unexpectedly higher bill that month) that they've been moved up to the "enhanced", more expensive, metered dialup service that was sold in writing as "always on" but obviously is not.
Do you want to see something funny? Ask the ISP what advantages there are for YOU to use WinPoet. It's like asking a minister "How is it OK to blow people away just because I'm in the army?". They stammer like a parent asked about sex by their kid!
Remember : WinPoet = BAD | |
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willardk
Mod 2000-03
join:1999-12-02
Jackson Heights, NY | nope its PPPoA different implemetation...even less common than PPPoE.
Will | |
| | | Anon | Sadly, your problem may not be internal. Before trying anything else, though, try reinstalling your Bellatlantic software right over the existing install - that worked for me. Once I was started, my service has functioned flawlessly. BUT, I had to wait an extra week because BA was installing a new "red" router at my station - apparently the old router was unreliable and caused frequent disconnects. Next time you have a couple of hours, call BA and ask to have your inquiry kicked upstairs until reach you reach a level of tech support where they can answer this sort of question. Once you reach this level, the support is excellent, but I am not kidding about the wait time.
Also, for networking, two NICs and All Aboard has worked great for me, and I have not changed any TCP/IP bindings, although I have not tried games on the internet from either machine on my LAN.
My only complaints now are the LONG boot time while the computer searches for the DHCP server, and little boxes that ask if you want to close the connections when you exit the browser. Closing the connection is good security, but so is BlackICE which I installed. | |
| | | Anon | I jumped up and down and hollered at Bell Atlantic until they finally sent out a technician with a laptop to test the line. Unfortunately, the dummies sent the technician out the door with a Windows 98 machine, even though I told them *repeatedly* that I'm running Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (i.e., not a fair comparison).
The technician was not able to reproduce the problem on his Win98 laptop, but he did see the spontaneous combustion occurring on my NT workstation. He noticed that the problem only seemed to occur when he stopped surfing the web or checking e-mail, which got me to thinking...
Since I'm a software developer, I decided to build a small applet that does nothing but ping a server every X seconds to keep the connection busy (but not so often that performance is degraded). Problem solved! My workstation has now been online for over two hours with no disconnections.
(By the way... since the Bell Atlantic technician wasn't able to fix my connection, he said that he would call me later Friday to arrange another visit with a Windows NT laptop. Of course, he LIED  ... he never called.) | |
| | | | Anon | Re: PPPoE spontaneous disconnects solved! What a whiner. So what boils down to is that your system was problem, not the DSL. If you (an all-knowing 'software developer') had known how properly configure your system, there never would have been an issue. And then you question his veracity. Whatever. | |
| | | Anon | 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.
HTH | |
| | | | 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. | |
| | Anon | Bellsouth's new PPPoE was a terrible experience using the "NTS EnterNet 300 connect software" to pass a userID and password. The setup of EnterNet 300 on Windows NT 4 did not work at all. Has anyone had any luck with a firewall/router that supports PPPoE to pass the UserID and password? | |
| | | Anon | Re: PPPoE I really hate it for folks who are stuck with PPPoE (or, evern flakier, PPPoA.) It's problematic and buggy, in my opinion.
What I really hate is that the ISP I work for, among others, STILL heralds their service as "an always on connection". It is NOT always on for PPPoE customers. My bridged/DHCP connection is always on. Having to launch WinPoet to connect is NOT what people think they are being sold. Boo! | |
| | | Anon | You can use the ISB2LAN. See my site below. For Windows NT you needed EnterNet 300 V1.3 which few are shipping, it is relatively new, also see my site below.
Bob
»www.carricksolutions.com/pppoe.htm | |
| | | | Anon | Re: PPPoE YOU COULD TRY A REVERSE ARB AND USP. THIS IS WHAT STEVIE SAID. | |
| | Anon | pretty good to excellent... funny thing is I only hear nightmare in the forum, but from my exp since 2/24/2000 with PacBell Basic DSL is totally awesome. I talked to their REP with about 3 & 5 mins waiting time and I also get result. The e-mail is a bit slow (20 sec delay), but I got everything I sent. No complaints about the newsgroup. I actually prefer winpoet over NTS, seem alot faster at connecting. Since then, I tested it on everything, i.e. stream multimedia at 300K..flawless D/L about 1 Gbytes in 1.2 hrs.
By the way, they gave me a Alcatel Home Touch Modem.The Rep says it's much better than Alcatel 1000 which give people disconnect and wasting bandwidth problem.
From what Pacbell installer told me is that PacBell was hacked, but I think it probably a lame excuse for not being prompt with everything.
One last thing, their POTS splitter is great, actually solves some of the distortion on my existing phone. | |
| | | Anon | Re: PacBell PPPoe is actually.... One more thing.. I also setup a LAN in my house, and DAMN! PPPoe can't be shared without using a router, but I think there must be a way around this pretty soon because all of the machines are able to log on when no one has logged on. There should be some way to check if it's logged ,and if it is, then use ICS and share the connection. Logically, this way we don't need to have one machine on all the time. Not really interested in Static IP, just wanna surf....Also to let people know that the modem is SPEED TOUCH HOME and there is also SPEED TOUCH PRO which also have ROUTER, firewall, and NAT support built in. The PRO, I think, also support PPPoe, but I could be wrong. PacBell do not offer this modem as an option, but you always can ask. | |
| | Anon | Hi all. I am having difficulty running my Bell Atlantic DSL line on Windows 2K. I have no problems with Win98. I downloaded the new WinPoet 2.0 but still can't get it running. I get a message saying that iVasion adapter not installed, as I am installing it! Any ideas? Help! Thank you.
Chris | |
| | | Anon | Re: Windows 2K WinPoet Bell Atlantic DSL Download the work in progress PPPoE 2000 software at »user.cs.tu-berlin.de/%7Enormanb/. I installed it on the Retail version of W2K Pro and it works fine. The W2K registry still needs to be tweeked to obtain the same performance as Win 98 (I have yet to try the TCP/IP unbinding trick, but it will probably make a difference as well).
Good Luck! | |
| | | | Anon | Re: Windows 2K WinPoet Bell Atlantic DSL To install Winpoet 2 in Win2K.. install winpoet as normal... then go to Control Panel and "Add new hardware" choose to add a network adapter and then choose "Have disk" and point to the .inf file in the folder that u installed Winpoet. it'll add the Ivasion adapter. Reboot, and create a new Connection in the network control panel and choose to "dial up to a private network"... keep going through the setup of a connection and when it asks u for a phone num put in anything like (000-0000 hehe this looks funny when it's dialing). After u have it setup, u can logon using the Dialer for Win2K using Winpoet... works excellent | |
| | Anon | 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! | |
| | Anon | PPPoE is working well for several hundred thousand subscribers now. NTS has made our product available as a consumer upgrade for $29 for those who need more features, platform support, reliability, etc. You can download an evaluation copy or order online.
Bill Moore
NTS | |
| | | Anon | Re: PPPoE, try EnterNet from NTS As a former network administrator for a local DSL provider, I can tell you that all of the things stated about PPPoE are true - it is mainly a benefit for the ISP, as they can oversell their connections. However, I can tell you why my ISP considered it - one of the biggest problems that we had on our network was customers "borrowing" additional IP addresses above and beyond what we had alloted them - this was especially troublesome when they borrowed someone else's address. PPPoE was the only solution according to our concentrator manufacturer - they have since gone with the excellent Cisco DSL concentrator, and gotten rid of the other POC. | |
| | | Anon | But why should Bellsouth customers have to pay for the updated version of NTS EnterNet 300? Bellsouth, my ADSL provider, should offer this to their customers, especially when Bellsouth is telling their customers that the older version (pre v1.3) of EnterNet 300 works on Windows NT. | |
| | | Anon | Well, I have an NT platform and some brilliant Tech from PacBell thought this would be a good solution to get my DSL with PPPoE working. Only one small problem, apparently nobody at NTS is aware that a lot of folks using NT do so because it supports Dual Processors. "Error - This software will not run on multi-processor machines." | |
| | | | Anon | Re: PPPoE, try EnterNet from NTS UPDATE: NTS has released a version 1.34 of their Enternet 300 which does work on multi-processor machines. | |
| | Anon | Dear Folks:
If anyone reads this, please respond immediately. I was a BA ADSL customer with a static IP back in Aug -- now they switched me over to PPPoE, and I need the green CD. They already sent me the wrong CD twice, and was wondering if someone can help me through email to send the software -- hope this is legal! I need WinPoet and Netscape? Please, someone, help!!!!
--respond to: asafb@mail.com | |
| | Anon | "preserves the dialup experience"
This is great. This reminds me of something...ah yes, here it is...I found this ad in the back of a Farmer Almanac (c. 1899):
'Announcing Horseless Carriage Reins! Yes! The future is the horseless carriage but why should you lose the "giddy-up experience" of a team of horses? This is why Luddite Industries has developed Horseless Carriage Reins. These fine quality leather reins attach to your horseless carriage's navigation device (called the "steering wheel" by today's kids) and foot-feed (the same whipper-snappers call these "gas pedals") and allow you to control your horseless carriage as a team of horses should be controlled. And as an added benefit using Horseless Carriage Reins keeps your speed down to a easy trot! Horseless Carriage Reins -- Preserving the Giddy-Up Experience!
Yep. The more things change, the more they stay the same. | |
| RHess58
join:2001-04-14
Elgin, IL
| When I upgraded to win XP, I set up my Broadband with out using the software from Earthlink. I had gotten Winpoet 2.0. I used the windows broadband setup, not using winpoet and I do not have any problems at all. My family re online 5 - 8 hours a day.
When I had win 98 and used wimpoet it sucked. | |
| gonaads
join:2002-03-28
San Francisco, CA
edited
| I'm running WIN XP Pro on my box and using it's native broadband setup with
Pacbell basic DSL. I know it's using PPPoE and it always connects, my "Down"
is 1.27mbps & my "Up" is 107kbps. It's setup with the Wire Speed DSL Modem
(the white one), and I configured the properties for the idle time hang-up to "never"
and it just hums along. I can leave it on and connected for hours idle, it keeps on
tickin'. It could be distance or just the area that could be affecting other peoples
connections or dropped connections, especially the ones that said they moved and
were stuck with a dynamic address.
--
"When the going gets weird. The weird turn pro!"
Hunter S. Thompson
[text was edited by author 2002-03-30 04:28:12] | |
| 
MarcoPC
@net.mx
| I've seen a lot of you guys having problems with PPPoE. Try RasPPPoE!!! (»www.raspppoe.com) I got rid of my ISPs CDs, I only use RasPPPoE. It's a wonderful piece of software 
Regards
Marco | |
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LordMarius
@net.mx
| Well, I have a DSL connection with PPPoE protocol stack, I have 3 computers at my house and I don't ever have to dial-up to get connected because I use a USRobotics 8000A Router configured to dial-up by itself, I just plug the RJ-45 cable connector to any of the back RJ-45 connectors of the router and that´s it. Its pretty easy since i don´t have to configure anything in any new computer and it really is transparent to me. I have a 512downstream 256upstream and it works quite well... | |
| SdCaCeVeDo
join:2001-12-16
Fort Lauderdale, FL
| I used to have "Verizon Online DSL" (before I moved) and I had to use PPPoE to connect. I just moved away from "Verizon" to "BellSouth" territory, and now I got BellSouth's "FastAccess DSL" and the modem they provided to me is a Westell. Now when I first got my equipment I just connected it (ethernet) and decided not to install any of the software that came with it, because Windows XP had built-in PPPoE. I already new that BellSouth uses PPPoE and for a while I was connecting using the built-in software. Then one day I decided to install the software and then it needed to reboot in the end, and then i noticed that when I tried connecting using the built-on PPPoE, I got a error 722 saying that the remote computer was not compatible with the type of call requested (or something like that). I also noticed that when I launch Internet Explore or any other program that uses the internet, it would find an internet connection and i new the none of my network connections were being used. So for about a week I was just stumped because I new that the BellSouth uses PPPoE but I wasn't doing anything to connect, I would just turn on my computer and boom, I was connected to the internet without a single click, then i decided to email BellSouth asking them what was going on and they told me that the modem it self making the PPPoE connection. It makes sense because the installation wizard asked me for all my information and the modem doesn't even have a turn off button, (this is a Westell WireSpeed 2100). | |
| ma0934
join:2002-11-15
Southfield, MI
| My ISP provides PPPoE over what they call ADSL. The service is fine, and I have actually no complaints. I even succeeded in installing Zone Alarm Pro, plus did some port forwarding.
I am using Win2k, Alcatel modem connected to my ICS PC via Ethernet - therefore I have two cards - I'm pretty sure I'm not using WinPoet - in fact, the ADSL setup in "Networking and Connections" seems like it's part of the operating system - does anyone know if that's the case? | |
|
gcruz
@veedix.com
| Well here is my issue hope someone can help.
The Setup
I have Advantex DSL service with a static IP address
My DSL modem connects to a lynksis 4 port router
Connected to the router are two machines
1)Windows 2000 professional
2)Windows 2000 Server
The router is configured with PPPoe to keep connection alive every 30 seconds.
The problem: when I have both computers connected my connection drops sporadically. Mainly about every 2 hours. but it can be 2 minutes. The only way I can get my connection back is if I restart my Windows 2000 server machine. Just as soon as I see the screen go black during the reboot I can flip back to my 2000 Professional machine and the connection comes back. I have connected the 2000 server machine directly to the DSL modem and the same thing happens I have to restart the server when the connection drops. I don't know what to do can anyone give me some insight please. | |
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