Setting up DSL through a router

stilldrunk · Post by **stilldrunk** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:22 pm

I bought a new router the other day, but for some reason I cannot connect to my DSL account throught it... an error saying no dialtone comes up..any advice?

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:18 pm

make sure you have no filters on the jack to the modem what modem do you have and what rotuer??

glears · Post by **glears** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:03 pm

Maybe you selected PPP instead of PPPoE when setting up your WAN configurations.

stilldrunk · Post by **stilldrunk** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:23 pm

mccoffee wrote:make sure you have no filters on the jack to the modem what modem do you have and what rotuer??

I've a linksys router and a speedstream dsl router

what's the diff between PPP and PPPoE?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:26 pm

stilldrunk wrote:I've a linksys router and a speedstream dsl router

what's the diff between PPP and PPPoE?

2x routers?

Why you wish to add a second router?

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:48 pm

stilldrunk wrote:I've a linksys router and a speedstream dsl router

what's the diff between PPP and PPPoE?

point to point protocol is just that a direct link to where you are going to where pppoe is point to point over ethernet

same thing as ppp but in capsulated differently using an ethernet frame.