SBC Yahoo DSL (Scary??)

[Jacob Hurley]

Lol, don't bring back the memories!  I used to do tech support for
pacbell/sbc dsl (same thing), and you're right, you don't need the CD.
Any ol' pppoE software should do the trick for you.

And chris is right, check with you buddies at dslreports.com first,
cause trust me, working in that call center (1-800 tier 1 support) ..
they drag any old monkey in off the street to answer the phones.  And a
lot of times at dslreports, if you are having connection/speed issues,
you can just post your traceroute to dslreports.com and they can usually
figure out what the problem is (well they used to at least)

Good luck

Jacob Hurley
Network Operations Center
Alexander Open Systems

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hoelscher [mailto:mohoelx at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:18 PM
To: pert at tas-kc.com; kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: SBC Yahoo DSL (Scary??)

I'm using SBC DSL since January (ex Telocity/Directv DSL customer) and I
have never stuck their vermin infested CD in any of my drives!

Check out dslreports.com in the forums section.  SBC actually has some
of their DSL techs that get paid to help people there, and they will
tell you - ain't nothing on the CD thats actually needed.  You log in
through a special ID on initial setup and create your account, then plug
it into your router or whatever.

I'm using a D-link 4-port router that has my account info coded into the
PPoE definition, and connects up just fine.

The one and only thing you don't get is for the 1-800 techs to be able
to remotely connect to your machine for trouble-shooting, but I'd
suggest using the guys on dslreports.com anyway!  They are GOOD!

Chris.

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 22:22, Patrick Miller wrote:
> Check out this page.
> 
> http://support.sbcglobal.net/dsl/
> 
> It sounds like it will work with linux and routers after all it lists
PPPoE
> setup under "Router FAQ" & "Enter your Member ID and password in your
> router"
> 
> Does anyone have the SBC Yahoo DSL (they are running a promotion
760-1.5
> down and 256 up for $44/mo)
> 
> This is scary:
> 	DSL Connection Manager
> 	and
> 	Install SBC Yahoo! DSL:
> 
> 		Where it says you have to let the CD setup your account.
> 

-- 
Chris Hoelscher <mohoelx at sbcglobal.net>