[TriLUG] OT: new DSL modem from bellsouth

[Mark Kempster]

Dan Monjar wrote:
> --On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:06:19 AM -0400 Mark Kempster 
> <mark at kempster.org> wrote:
> 
>> I'm running a Westell modem (A90-210030-04)
> 
> 
> Is that the little white brick?

That's the one.


>  That is the one I have now, it replaced 
> a wider, thinner, black one... Alcatel I think.  I liked the black one 
> 'cuz it had more blikin' lights.

I was foolish enough to think I could swap out my old blue modem
(from what ended up being DirectTV) with the white one from BellSouth
(naive, I know), and things completely fell apart for a day.

I figured the westell-as-shipped was designed to be plugged in directly
to a single machine, and if you want the connection-sharing stuff, you
were supposed to pay BS an extra $10 (or so) a month. Bah to that!

Cheers
- mark