On 2/11/06, Michael Christopher Woods <woods.mc at gmail.com> wrote:
> I gave up in the end and ran the PPPOE tool 'pppoeconf', and entered the
> default user name / password provided by Eircom. My net connection now
> seems better. But I'm confused, has the connection improved because I
> changed the MTU settings ? or because the PPPOE demon is running? - I
> don't know much about PPPOE. Have I done the right thing my running
> pppoeconf and setting that up ?
I never had an eircom DSL setup but there was a thread a short while
ago about slowness in Eircom's DSL setup on Linux, which seemed to be
related to the /etc/resolv.conf on the machine pointing to the DSL
router DNS rather than the eircom ones. Any chance that could be the
case ?
Steph
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