From: Vincent Cunniffe (vincent at domain cunniffe.net)
Date: Mon 09 Sep 2002 - 17:46:20 IST
Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:54:40PM +0100, Justin Mason wrote:
>
>
>>Unfortunately, that service is unfeasibly expensive. :( drat, I shipped
>>my el-cheapo Speedtouch Home around the world for this reason alone. I
>>will probably try anyway.
>
> OK - given the tenor of my last message, I'd like to now accumulate details
> of non-Eircom supplied equipment which has been tested by ILUG members, with
> a view to putting this up on the web site. So if YOU (which I know includes
> Vince Cunniffe and Paul Kelly but I'm sure there are more) have connected
> non-Eircom supplied equipment to an Eircom ADSL line, please let me know
> what it was and if there were any "issues" with using it.
Yes, I have. I brought home my Asus ADSL router from NZ, and it's
running quite happily on a 1MB uncapped line now. Eircom insisted
that we had to buy their equipment and refused to give us any
information whatsoever (not support, but information as basic as
VPI/VCI numbers).
I ignored them, and with the assistance in his own time of an
Eircom staff member (unnamed, but thanks ;-), got it running. The
main problem is trying to get them supporting routed mode :
whatever eircom is doing doesn't like that at all. Eircom cannot
even get their own equipment running it properly, so you have to
run it in bridged mode and use a software PPPOE stack on a
machine on the far end. If you have linux, no problem ;-)
Vin
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