Re: How to install DSL, how to install ethernet card?
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:05:45 -0400, mm <NOPSAMmm2005@bigfoot.com>
wrote:
>So Verizon DSL is getting cheap and it's clear IMO that my current ISP
>(erols/rcn/starpower in Baltimore) is never going to have highspeed.
>
>Verizon sent me the kit and started billing me yesterday**, but not
Replying to my own post: And it is finally hooked up, sort of, today,
9 days later!
Most of what follows is just narrative. follow-up, but at ##### are a
couple new questions.
....
>use the USB port, that I have to have an ethernet card.
I still haven't found my NIC, and I didn't want to go to the store, so
I bought one on ebay, a Belkin card, 3 dollars for the card and 4.85
for shipping!
It came this past thursday, in the original heat shrunk cellophane,
but it mentions XP in the instructions so it couldn't be that old.
Problem installing:
The DSL light was flashing on the DSL modem, and eventually I learned
that is not as good as steady, and it went steady after BYPASSING THE
Surge protector.
I put in a DSL filter on the phone line, and it there was a lot of
whooshing, so I added a second one in series and it's fine now.
Probably the first one was no good at all, but I haven't tested the
second alone yet.
I had put in the first one backwards (by using the Y connector) and I
thought it didn't work because it was backwards. So I still have to
try the good one backwards and see if that works.
STill iddn't work. Verizon software said I had no ethernet card, even
though Device manager said I had one.
But when I clicked on Disply Driver Details, in the second tab, the
white box was empty. No details.
DOS box IPCONFIG gave all zeroes.
Network Box (Control Panel) had no new entries for TCP/IP.
Verizon tried to help, but eventually I called Belkin. The first
person spoke good English, but her accent was so strong some of the
time, I still couldn't really understand everything, but she said to
reinstall the card. I asked the card into the motherboard or the
software for the card. (I had already installed the software 2 or 3
times, but hadn't removed it in between. I tried the card in another
slot, then back to the first.
CAlled again. The second guy said download new drivers. Reconnected
to dial-up and did that. NO file on the download is more than 5 hours
newer than the files on the CD that came with the card. April 25,
2001.
Nonetheless, the new files work well. NIC is fixed. If they just
wrote the CD, how did they have time to stuff the CD's in the boxes
and ship them if they had changed some of the files 5 hours later.
Weren't the boxes still in the building?
When did XP come out? If later than April 25, 2001, how come they
didn't include the newer, downloadable drivers on the CD they shpped,
which included software for XP.
Still couldn't connect.
Verizon had me do lots of things, but I think it was at Internet
Options/Connections/LAN connections. Yesterday, nothing was checked.
The first guy had me check the top option, Automatically Detect
Settings. Today when we looked, that was no longer checked. Use Proxy
was checked, even though no proxy address was filled in. Not
surprised that wouldn't work, but I didn't change it. Maybe installing
the NIC software did, but that seems strange.
Now I can connect and dowload a file real fast, and IE6 works, but
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Firefox doesn't work. Can't imagine why not, since IE does.
And I have to make changes in the settings for Agent. (I've posted
to the AGent ng.)
Plus I forgot that Verizon probably doesn't have ngs, or at least not
most of the ones I have been reading, and if I want to cancel Erols, I
have to find another way to get them. I don't think the article
numbers will match up and I'm afraid it will want to delete what I
have retrieved already, or it will get all mixed up. Any Agent
specialists out there?
And I have to make changes to get Eudora to work. (I've posted to the
Eudora ng.
I knew this wouldn't be simple. Thanks for all your help.
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