Comments on: At long last: Online at home http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/at-long-last-online-at-home/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Luke http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/at-long-last-online-at-home/#comment-14891 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:20:17 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/at-long-last-online-at-home/#comment-14891 Recently I got ADSL account with Covad here in the states. They gave me a DSL Wifi router with an internal NAT and DHCP. The technician who installed the line actually configured the router for me and typed in the username/password stuff in there.

All you had to do was to plug yourself in, or connect to the Wifi network. Of course that was the exact opposite of what I wanted – I just wanted a modem, that I could put outside my Sonicwall Firewall… Sigh…

Anyway some DSL companies go above and beyond now to make installation as painless and trouble free as possible.

]]> By: Alejandro http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/at-long-last-online-at-home/#comment-14684 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:53:16 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/at-long-last-online-at-home/#comment-14684 It’s cool to have you back. I hope your feeling’s right and from now on the problems will subside a bit.

As an aside, I’d never heard of a proprietary dialer. I DID get into fights with my ISPs to get my connection configured on Linux, but I never had to face that.

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