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Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:52:00 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Connecting to SBC/yahoo DSL with OS/2-eCS

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On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:26:13 PDT7, Sandy Shapiro wrote:

>The router software (firmware?), which is accessed from my web browser,
>has a check mark for PPoE, and one for DHCP.
>
>I am using OS/2 Warp 4 with SBC Yahoo. I have used Linksys, SMC and D-Link
>routers, and they all work the same.

Yes, the same with my router, a Netgear unit. SBC assigns me a dynamic IP address
and my router is able to handle it.

With regard to the initial installation of the SBC DSL service at my home. I had a
technician come and do that in person, because I also wanted a home run line
installed. The technician was very helpful. He installed the DSL service on my wife's
Windows machine and he did it without using the SBC installation CD (he would only
install it on Windows, not eCS). He told me that I probably did not want to use their CD,
because it came with too much baggage (an SBC modified Internet Explorer, for
example). And so, he installed a direct link on the Windows machine, bypassing the
router (the machine had a software firewall on it). Then he gave me the IP address for
the SBC DNS server. After he left I put the router back in place, put the DNS information
into the router and changed the internet adapter on the Windows machine to
automatically receive a dynamic IP address from the router and not SBC. After I got the
modem-to-router-to-Windows machine connection working, I changed the settings in
the eCS "TCP/IP Configuration Notebook" as stated in my earlier E-Mail.

My SBC service goes down maybe once a year for maybe 1 to 3 hours. In addition to
that I may have reset my modem and router (turn them both OFF, then back ON) maybe
twice a year. Other than that the service is really great (I think).
HCM

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