GTE and a potential fix

[Jon Pruente]

I got SBC Yahoo! DSL about a month or so ago.  I just used my iMac
(slotloader G3) running X.2.8 to do the setup.  It went well, and I
never had to call into to a tech center.  Once the modem was verified
I just unplugged the network from the iMac and into the uplink port of
my Netgear router/WiFi AP.  Reset both and got a good network
connection.  I only had to change the default LAN IP of the Netgear
router as it conflicted w/ the default IP of the modem.  I installed
Ubuntu (delivered a week later) on my Dell GX1 and it went flawlessly
onto the network.

The modem says to leave it connected and powered on for at least 10
days to "tune" the connection.  It might do that, but I'm betting they
won't let it go over 384Kbps until they get myh first payment...  My
upstream is at 384 too, so I've got SDSL (kinda) for just $14.95. :)

Jon.

On 6/30/05, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO <brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
> Can you get the yahoo or SBC DSL in St. Joe?  They are supposed to be
> offering it for $14.95/mo.  If you do a self install, just don't install
> the stupid software, which is useless.  I actually had to reload a
> winders PC for someone after their fine software hosed the system.  All
> you have to do is call em when the self install kit arroves and read off
> the MAC of the DSL "modem" so the provisioning can happen and set
> everything for DHCP and you're golden.