Anyone here use Verizon DSL?

[Bear in SFO]

For those people who use Windows 2000 and SBC DSL, RASPOE works way better 
than the crap on the supplied CD...

At 09:48 AM 10/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm using Verizon DSL.  They use PPPOE.  The cd has, among other
>things, a PPPOE client called WinPoet, with an installation wizard
>thing.  On the Windows side, I use a much simpler client called
>RASPPPOE.  On the Linux side, I use Roaring Penguin's PPPOE client.
>It works fine with the Westel modem that Verizon provides.
>
>-Dave
>
>
>Buddy Brannan writes:
>  > Howdy,
>  >
>  > OK, this is way, way off topic.
>  > But I'm getting DSL through Verizon in a few days, and their Web site
>  > is supremely uninformative.
>  >
>  > Do they use PPPoE?
>  >
>  > They say their self-install kit comes with "DSL software". WTF is
>  > that? Is that just the standard Verizon-branded MSIE and so forth, or
>  > do I actually have to configure the DSL modem under Windows or
>  > something?
>  >
>  > I've even looked on the site for DSL modem docs...and didn't find
>  > any. Just the usual blah blah hype about how easy and fast and
>  > wonderful it all is.
>  >
>  > TNX,
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