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Re: PhoenixDSL/Telocity/Megapath

  • From: Robert L. Harris
  • Date: Mon Feb 05 21:23:03 2001


Nope.  He's got an external adapter that has eth out.  He can ping up
to his gateway with both boxes, but not the next box.  



Thus spake Jason Lewis ([email protected]):

> Sounds fishy to me.....
> 
> Is the line somehow tied to his MAC?
> 
> jas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Robert L. Harris
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:54 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: PhoenixDSL/Telocity/Megapath
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Just got some news that in a neat twist of sales between PheonixDSL,
> Telocity and Megapath, anyone originally on Pheonix's line will be without
> support.  A friend of mine in the mean time tried to hook up a new firewall
> and can't get past his gateway, but can ping the gateway.  The windows
> box originally installed works fine though.  Someone at Level 1 customer
> support says "yeah something's wrong" and he won't be able to do anything
> until he gets a new Telocity DSL router for his DSL.  This of course
> will take 3 weeks to ship.
> 
> This sound normal? Does the person on the other end of the phone have a
> clue? (i.e. Anyone at Telocity/Megapath know the truth of what's going
> on with them? ) I have some customers using them for small businesses.
> 
> No, cablemodems and other dsl systems aren't available where he is right
> now.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> :wq!
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :  
> Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability 
>   at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
>                                 \_       that important!
> DISCLAIMER:
>       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'



:wq!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :  
Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability 
  at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
                                \_       that important!
DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'