said by Diablo575:
Does this mean that you are not using your Telocity Gateway/modem? I would like to use my Copper Mountain modem that I got with my PhoenixDSL install. I am not sure this is possible plus I have not received my new IP number from Telocity/Rythms. Hopefully I will be up soon.
You probably can use your Copper Mtn modem, but you probably don't want to in the long run. The Telocity Gateway/modem looks up your static IP address so the way to get it is to hook it up. To get your static IP, the Telocity brick first asks a DHCP server to assign it an IP address. It uses that IP address temporarily so that it access the Telocity database to find out what your static IP address ought to be. It then sticks that address in its internal settings and from then on you use it. After you do the install, contacting its internal browser page at 10.5.1.2 provides a wealth of useful information.
Now, if you have any problems with the Telocity database (they had me listed under the wrong phone number and they use phone number as the data lookup key), then in the meantime while you are waiting for that to get resolved, you can probably use your Copper Mtn modem. Just set things up for DHCP. It will then ask for a temporary IP address just like the Telocity brick does. The address it returns will NOT be your static IP address, but if you leave it connected, the DHCP lease on that IP address will last quite a while. Long enough that I could count on it when I was trying to retrieve files from home when I was at the office during the day. If that is good enough for you, then you can probably use your Copper Mtn modem for a long time. But if you want your static IP address, access to newsgroups, etc., then you will be much happier (that doesn't mean to imply happy, just happier) using the Telocity brick.
