[Ham-Computers] WooHoo, it's fast!

[Dale Miller]

Congrats....
You might have had to change your IP address on your NIC to a particular 
IP address to talk to the modem in a manual install.
Usually they use a 192*.*168*.*X*.*X address as a default.
Enjoy it and keep learning the networking and you will enjoy it even more.

Philip Atchley wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Following Aarons advice I decided to install my DSL modem and see if 
> SBC had connected me early.  They did, by at least a day.  Perhaps 
> it's been activated for several days, who knows.
>
> Following the SBC instructions EXACTLY for a MANUAL installation 
> without the CD ROM, I couldn't get the computer to talk to the modem 
> (A special SBC version of the Speedstream 4100) at all  by typing the 
> url of the modem into the browser address window.  I even turned off 
> ZA to see if that was blocking it, rebooted and did various things.  
> They just wouldn't talk!  The LAN Network indicator in the task bar 
> kept sweeping back and forth looking for the address.
> So finally I opted to load the system from the SBC provided CD, but 
> (NOT load all their software, a BASIC install ONLY).  One of the first 
> things the installer asked me was for the access code on the bottom of 
> the modem (which I'd recorded prior to mounting it to the wall under 
> the operating table). From then on everything went exactly as it 
> should, it went out to SBC and let me register the connection, made my 
> Internet and EMAIL connections (to the existing Mozilla FIREFOX and 
> THUNDERBIRD programs that I use).
> One note:  Per SBC, I.E. MUST be loaded on your machine to do an 
> install, confirmed by the fact that is the browser that the package 
> opened during the install registration process.
>
> I'm not sure WHY I couldn't do a manual install per the read.me file 
> on the CD.  This is apparently a new Modem that they're using and I 
> suspect that SBC may have had this modem configured to require the CD 
> for initial set-up! Now I can access it through the modem URL to read 
> the various setup specifications and stats.
>
> How fast is it?  I haven't yet figured out how to determine my link 
> operating speeds, but it downloaded a 13.7 MB file in 1Min 10- seconds 
> flat! With the dial-up that would have taken anywhere from 30-60 minutes!
>
> Am I a happy puppy?  You bet!  It all seems to happen instantly, and 
> I've been told it may not even come up to full speed till the 10 day 
> "break-in" period is over.
>
> 73 de Phil  KO6BB
>
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Cheers & 73's
Dale Miller, KC2CBD
Tennessee
Ham Operator since 1997
Member of YahooPipesmokers and ASP since February 2005

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