Wow, so I'm moved over to my ISP and you should be getting this at a little bit faster speed now. It was a struggle, but that's what I've come to expect with any public communications service these days. At least when I had problems this time around, I could walk in to my ISP's office instead of waiting to talk to an MSN or Qwest person on the phone. In fact, I was even offered a beer the first time I stopped by. That's good service. Much better than "please unplug your modem for 20 seconds and tell me if the red light comes on blah blah blah."
The major obstacles for me were these:
- Apparently running with the wrong version of CBOS will prevent the modem from training on the DSL line. I'm not sure if this is by coincidence or by intention, but it really confused me. I was under the impression that no matter what, the green WAN light should at least blink. But running CBOS 2.3.x, the light never even came on. Once I flashed the modem to 2.4.6, everything was great--almost...
- CBOS is still a confusing piece of crap (at least to a guy who's desperately impatient to see his new 1.5Mbit DSL speeds). Getting the NAT situation up and running was really a pain in the arse! Mainly this was due to my inexperience, but I would have killed for a tcpdump or some access to a traffic log on the modem's two interfaces. Is there a way to do that? I couldn't find one. Thank goodness I only switch ISPs once every few years.
May 9th, 2005 at 08:06 AM Yeah get that IWork going man, can't wait to see what it can do to my web page. Get to work Elly you need to learn this fast. Who knows you might came up with something you can sell?