[luau] Verizon DSL

[Casey Roberts]

--- Dustin Cross <dusty at sandust.com> wrote:
> At Bell Atlantic the connection from the CO to the
> main office was a T-1 even though the system
> recommended an OC-3 for the amount of lines they
> had.  What you got was dedicated bandwidth to the
> CO, from there it is shared bandwidth.

Better to have a choke point at the CO than to have
one for the neighborhood segment on top of that.  Like
I pointed out in my previous post, with my block, even
if they had a dedicated line to just my block, 300
units times 7-8 buildings equals a lot of potential
cable modem user on a small pipe.  It really depends
on how many people are using cable for broadband.  

Also with Verizon, the static IP service is lumped
under Verizon DSL Business Class, so you are allowed
to run servers as part of your agreement.  If you
decide to use a dynamic IP instead, you connect using
DHCP.  When you order the service, you receive a box
with the DSL modem, a disk with Outlook Express and
Internet Explorer, four DSL filters and instructions
on how to connect the computer to the modem and phone
line.  The documentation they provide with the modem
is confusing (My invoice stated that the modem was a
PPPoE modem, and it took me two days of being stubborn
to call tech support to find out that they use
standard DHCP).  They will not help you troubleshoot
your system, since they do not support anything other
than Mac or Windows.  I had a hard time convincing an
after-hours tech that he couldn't support my OS.  Even
with the lack of Linux support, I found it pretty easy
to set it up.

Casey Roberts

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