anybody using SBC Yahoo DSL?

[James Nelson]

Not to toot our own horn, but we offer a dedicated line ADSL service for
$49.95 per month.  This means you can drop SBC as your phone service and get
VOIP from Vonage, SunRocket, or Nuvio and save quite a bit of money each
month, especially when you look at the hidden taxes and fees of SBC and
TimeWarner.  Plus with our dedicated line ADSL service you get a static IP
and the support is based here in KC not in India, plus we have speeds up to
6MB down and 768K up for under $100 per month.

I switched do this myself a few months ago.  I had SBC DSL for $26.95 plus
their bundled phone service and with taxes and fees I was paying over $100 a
month.  Now with SunRockets $199 unlimited phone service for a year, plus
our dedicated line DSL service, I am saving over $40 per month.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] On Behalf
> Of Brian Kelsay
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:28 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: anybody using SBC Yahoo DSL?
> 
> Thanks to all the guys that responded today.  Two were off list and very
> helpful.  I got to deal with their tech support tonight at a friends
> house after work.  Unfortunately the tech support was from India and so
> my friend couldn't understand them.  They also were unable to get her
> modem provisioned today.  They have some Authentication server that the
> support person figured was down.  Doesn't mean it was really down, that
> was just her scripted response.  At least now I know what tech support
> will be like.  Hope I never have to use it.  The deal maker will be that
> I get free equipment and that the cost stays level for a year instead of
> just a few months like they offered before.  This will probably end up
> saving $20-30 a month and every bit helps.
> 
> I will be using IPCop still so using dyndns or a similar service is not
> a problem.  They have built-in clients for handling the updates and
> built-in PPPoE support to keep the connection alive.  As you say James,
> I may need a Winders PC to run the software the first time.  I was
> looking at my friend's and it looked like the software handled the
> provisioning of the modem.  I may be able to do without it by having
> tech support provision it, but who knows.
> 
> Again, thanks for all the advice.
> 
> 
> James Sissel wrote:
> > I started with Telocity which was bought out by
> > DirecTV which folded and switched over to SBC service.
> >  When that happened I got a new 2wire DSL modem.  I
> > paid $200 for it (a ripoff) but was "reimbursed" by
> > lower monthly bills the first year.
> >
> > I did setup via a Windows PC but it looked like it was
> > just using a webpage servered up by the modem.  I
> > think the address translated to 192.16.0.1 to talk to
> > the modem.  After I setup the modem I deleted all of
> > the installed software on the Windows PC.  I still
> > talk to the modem via a webpage and can download
> > updates and do all the administration.  Of course part
> > of the 150 Megs of crap software they install on the
> > Windows PC is a "monitoring" program for the modem so
> > they can serve me better.
> >
> > I setup one Gentoo Linux PC by name in the DSL modem
> > and passed the IP address directly through to it and I
> > serve a simple set of webpages on it now.  I have an
> > account on http://www.dyndns.org/ but don't have the
> > software installed quite correctly on the Linux box to
> > update the IP address every time it changes.  Since I
> > have frequent power blinks at my house it sometimes
> > changes often.  I need to UPS the DSL modem in the
> > basement.
> >
> > I have never noticed an outage.  I have never had to
> > call customer service.  I use paid Yahoo as my email
> > but see no reason I couldn't setup other servers.  I
> > have run SMTP servers on my Windows PC to send mail
> > out on occasion.
> >
> > I have the $26.95 year contract.  The speed of the
> > downloads are often better than here at work.
> >
> > Oh, the 2wire modem is also a DHCP server and firewall
> > so you just have to hook up a hub and then as many PCs
> > as you wish.
> >
> 
> 
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