According to EarthLink’s web-based order status page, my DSL connection went live today. (Thanks to my Nokia E61 for being able to reach the web sans a land-based line.) Unfortunately my equipment hasn’t yet arrived but I noticed my old Zyxel DSL modem (still powered on) showed an active DSL link. Hmm…

Since the Zyxel is already configured as a bridge I changed my Linksys PPPoE parameters and, voila!, it works. EarthLink was supposed to provide me with downstream speed of 3.0 or 6.0 Mbps rather than the typical 1.5 so I headed over to the Speakeasy broadband test to see what I had: 1.5 Mbps / 256 Kbps. I can live with that since it’s $25 less than what Covad was gouging charging me for the same. Maybe I’ll get more bandwidth with the Earthlink modem when it arrives - we’ll see.

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