Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

["Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/1/08, Chuck Payne <terrorpup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Teleco is ATT ( formerly Bellsouth ) but my ISP is abraxis.net.
>  Abraxis told me that I need the Ethernet Router because of the fiber

I don't think you actually have fiber to the home, what you probably
have is called IFITL (Integrated Fiber In The Loop) there is fiber to
the pedestal in front of your home and then you have Ethernet to your
home. Either way AT&T/Bellsouth use something called BBG which
basically 1) uses PPPoE 2) aggregates all the connections. So even if
you have another ISP the way the front end (PPPoE) connection is
established is always the same.

> I spent 5 hours on the phone with Linksys only to be told that the
>  router I have is for home use and  that what I need is more advance
>  and I need to call the small business line and have them recommend a
>  route to me. I looked at their small routers and they range from $150
>  to $350 dollars.

They probably still didn't understand the exact setup. The WRT54GL
(~USD60) with DD-WRT firmware can do just about anything you want...
of course that is 3rd party software and Linksys won't know anything
about that.


> Thanks for the link I will look into it. I am back at work today, was
>  going to talk to our network engineer, I am but SA and relay on him to
>  much for networking. Again thanks for all the help. I will that a look
>  into everything you have said. I have already forwarded some of the
>  stuff to the ISP to see if they have any advise as well.

I think you might have a tough time. The official answer is going to
be to use the Netopia router... but the WAN on that is only ADSL2.
IFITL is not deployed any more, there is a newer technology that they
are using which replaces Ethernet with ADSL (it simplifies the install
because it can share the same copper as your analog phone)...
Complicating things further, I don't think IFITL was ever deployed for
commercial (business) locations...  the multiple IP are generally only
sold for business accounts (at least if AT&T is your ISP, which is the
majority of the users)

I think the best place to be asking this question is at the forums
here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/ilec,bels You can post
anonymously, if you wish.
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