Lobo or ..........

irongutz · Post by **irongutz** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 1:10 pm

Lobo,

Question for ya,

I'm on cable internet right now and I was offered 2 free months of DSL with a free D-Link external modem (300.00CDN) everything free with no obligation to stay. $5.00/month cheaper than the cable I'm paying for now. So, I'm giving them a try and was wondering a few things. Here it goes:

1. Can I just plug in their new NIC card along side my cable NIC card? I don't want to give up my cable connection until I give DSL a good test drive. The sales person on the phone says that it will be up to 5X faster and more consistant than cabe. I'll judge that lol.

2. What Rwin values would be good to try with DSL running NORMAL connection. Don't think it is PPPOAE.

3. Should MTU be set to 1500?

Win ME
SG TCP Opti progy installed

I'm getting this DSL connection next week so I'll let you know how I like it.

Thanks

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 1:15 pm

I don't believe it will be faster, does it use your phone line, no calls, is it a slow USB Modem, RWIN 51100 or 64240 if not PPPoE

Yes MTU would still be 1500, PPPoE is different for different OS's

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 3:36 pm

what service dsl you getting up there?

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 3:44 pm

Took one of those speed tests, I like, 2 browsers open, ICQ

http://ddi.digital.net/~erin/speedtest.htm

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 4:16 pm

Don't anyone pop my bubble, I'm tweaked, hehehehehehe

Lee_Nover · Post by **Lee_Nover** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 4:27 pm

Your line speed:

40800 Kbps

5000 K bytes/sec

Almost as fast as #8.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 4:29 pm

Yea pretty quick, got my big fat juicy RWIN back in

irongutz · Post by **irongutz** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 4:38 pm

Thanks for the reply(s)

The DSL modem will be connected to NIC card (they said) external D-link make and I do know they also provide an internal modem but didn't find out until after the sales pitch. Which would be better do ya think? And can I run both NIC cards at the same time (cable and DSL)? I don't mean running the internet on both cable and DSL at the same time as I don't think that would work. Just unplug my cable from the NIC card and plug the new cable into the new DSL NIC. Will that work?

Thanks for the new RWIN values I'll give them a try next week.

Oh, the DSL service is 1.5MB down and 512 up from Telus Velocity ADSL through phone line.

Cheers

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 4:42 pm

The tech will hook up all that mess, will it be PPPoE?

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Wed Mar 20, 2002 4:47 pm

Please call ISP: and see if it's PPPoE

Press 1 if you are broke
Press 2 if you forgot why you called
Press 3 if this is a speed issue, everything looks good
Press 4 if you want to listen to sound track of Gone with the Wind
Press 5 if you are having problems that we can't solve
Press 6 if that dog won't hunt
Press 7 if your tired of waiting, were tired of you waiting
Press 8 if you want us to hang up on you
Press 9 if your not sure you dialed right number
If you want to speak to personnal rep you are 415 calls away, approx wait time is 2 days 25 min, thank you

Duplex mode may be different on DSL, click on DSL guide in signature

irongutz · Post by **irongutz** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 11:10 am

Ya, I hear you Lobo, but I have to hook that mess up myself as there will be no tech coming out to the house. They like to call it "self installation." I call it uh-oh!

Anyway thanks for the info and I'll let you know how the self install goes

Cheers!

irongutz · Post by **irongutz** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 11:14 am

P.S. It is not PPPoE

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 11:20 am

Yes you can run 2 NIC cards, download Optimizer for DSL so you won't have to keep changing Cable one, when it asks overwrite, select no

, just make sure you select NIC (DSL) adapter for this

irongutz · Post by **irongutz** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 12:28 pm

Sounds good Lobo

I'll fire it up next week when it arrives in the snail mail.

Thanks for the quick responses.

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Thu Mar 21, 2002 12:30 pm

Don't forget to come back and give us the poop!!!!!!!!!