From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 10:45:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A4C37B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:45:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.clubplus.net (ns1.clubplus.net [216.191.22.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89A3543E5E for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:45:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (cust29.209.188.66.dsl.accessv.com [209.188.66.29]) by www.clubplus.net (8.11.4/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g71Hh2B10682 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:43:02 -0400 Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g71GrZYN057200; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:53:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:53:34 -0400 From: David Banning To: Nathan Kinkade Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dsl modem suggestions Message-ID: <20020801125334.A57189@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20020801030135.A54643@skytrackercanada.com> <20020801082207.5f0a968a.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020801082207.5f0a968a.nkinkade@dsl-only.net>; from nkinkade@dsl-only.net on Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:22:07AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Generally speaking, your DSL provider will give you a limited choice of > CPE from which to choose. Your best bet is to stay within those bounds > if you want to guarantee compatability between your CPE and the DSLAM. > Your DSL provider, not your ISP, will have tested various CPE with their > DSLAM(s). This isn't to say that their decisions on which CPE to > "certify" aren't partial - only that they are known to work as expected. > Did your provider tell you that you could just buy any CPE that you > wanted? In theory, your CPE need only conform to the same line encoding > standards as your provider (DMT or CAP), but in practice this may not be > fool-proof. In my case, my DSL provider -sold- me the modem, but he also said that I didn't have to get it from him. He said I could use -any- brand that I wanted. Given your explanation, that would be "any modem as long as it falls within such-and-such parameters." Thanks for your comments. I will take it up with him. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message