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[David Cantrell]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:30:18AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:

> I guess [PPPoE] isn't that bad.  Most people seem to be moving to it.  For one
> thing, it is probably the best way (or so I'm told) to keep people from
> grabbing multiple IPs (without tieing service to a MAC, which sucks even
> more).

Thank $deity that I'm on a business ADSL scheme, and so I get a proper
router instead of those crappy USB things, and I get my own static routable
subnet.

> I do hate that Verizon advertises as always being on.  They are not always
> on.  I frequently have to go disconnect then redial.

I've had to do that once, because of a network upgrade.  #include std_grumble_
about_ISP_not_telling_me_in_advance

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