On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:26:02PM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote: :Well, just to add one (kinda) dissenting opinion... I use RCN and they're OK. :Not great, but usable. Their connection drops have gone from 2-3/day :to about 1-2/week and my IP address hasn't changed in about 3 months.
Well that's two people here who seem to have no *more* problems with RCN than I'm having with Verizon. And as I said (and would like to stress) Verizon is the only provider I've had in the Boston area, other than the dial up server I run. I'm in the middle of one of the more frustrating problems I have with Verizon. The connection died and woun't restart. I can see the request from my machine: tcpdump: listening on eth1 10:17:00.778047 PPPoE PADI [Service-Name] [Host-Uniq UTF8] 10:17:01.788096 PPPoE PADI [Service-Name] [Host-Uniq UTF8] 10:17:03.798461 PPPoE PADI [Service-Name] [Host-Uniq UTF8] 10:17:07.807986 PPPoE PADI [Service-Name] [Host-Uniq UTF8] no response from the Westell box, can't tell if it's that or the TelCo equipment at the other end. Can't debug it with Verizon because they don't support Linux and Win95 (my kids' machine) doesn't have the debuging tools to verify that the problem isn't with that computer (which I know it isn't). All I get out of tech support is "Reboot, Retry, Reinstall", by which time the problem has passed and they think this worked... -Jon
