Yes, what I was told is that people were hooking their DSL router/modem into the hub as well as the boxes so they all got separate ips and it was filling everything up to the point that other users were refused. This is also a bit of laziness on their peoples part ... they could have set it up so that customers couldn't do this...but they decided to go with pppoe. I am so glad that I have "Enhanced" DSL w/ static ips and I am about .8 miles from the CO...damn nice connection. just my 0.02
Abused it? How? PacBell, another SBC company, couldn't care less if I hooked up a bunch of computers on my one PPPoE connection. What's stopping people from just doing NAT with the PPPoE connection? Or is that not their point?
Is it because all the abusive users were taking up more than one IP via DHCP?
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