Verizon Residential DSL and OS X

davstein · #1 March 16th, 2001, 01:46 PM

Has anyone had success running Verizon DSL (residential) with OS X. I've ordered it and have 30 days to cancel, and want to be sure I don't spend the next 5 months running 9.1 so I can use my Internet, when I really want to use OS X!

Any help would be appreciated!

David

esc · #2 March 16th, 2001, 02:36 PM

Verizon's residential DSL is PPPoE. I used to have Verizon (but fled some time ago due to poor performance) and never tested it with X with PPPoE. For what it is worth the release will have PPPoE so you should be able to test it next week.

My guess is that it will work as at least two of the major local telcos use PPPoE for their residential DSL offers.

Another route would be to use a gateway that supports PPPoE.

griffman · #3 March 16th, 2001, 02:40 PM

Umm, I think that it kind of matters where you live. I have Verizon DSL in my house, and it's defintely not PPPoE.

It works great with OS X, and as 'esc' said, OS X will have PPPoE built in, so you'd be fine either way...

-rob.

davstein · #4 March 16th, 2001, 03:08 PM

Thanks for the help!

OK. I'm in Queens, NYC, NY. It's residential that I'm getting -- there is a software package that came with the Verizon "do-it-yourself" package, so I assumed this was required to get online with Verizon.

The instructions say there is a "Verizon Dialer" program you use to hook up to the internet. Is this what you all are using?

David

ZnU · #5 March 17th, 2001, 10:03 AM

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Originally posted by davstein
Thanks for the help!

OK. I'm in Queens, NYC, NY. It's residential that I'm getting -- there is a software package that came with the Verizon "do-it-yourself" package, so I assumed this was required to get online with Verizon.

The instructions say there is a "Verizon Dialer" program you use to hook up to the internet. Is this what you all are using?

That package probably just includes PPPoE software (the "Verizon Dialer") and an outdated version of a web browser. Mac OS X comes with IE 5.1 and has PPPoE built-in, so you don't need any of that.

ZnU · #6 March 17th, 2001, 10:08 AM

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Originally posted by griffman
Umm, I think that it kind of matters where you live. I have Verizon DSL in my house, and it's defintely not PPPoE.

It also depends when you signed up. I signed up almost 18 months ago, and at that time Verizon (then still Bell Atlantic) was giving out static IP addresses here (Manhattan, NYC). They switched to PPPoE 6 months or so after they hooked me up, but they never bothered to move the old accounts to PPPoE, so I still have my static IP ;-)

davstein · #7 March 17th, 2001, 03:42 PM

Nice! Static IP has been nice, but "up to" twice the speed is nicer! Thanks for the advice you all. I'm going to keep it!

Now -- on a non-OS X topic, but related: I own a speedstream SDSL modem, and if I can use it with Verizon, I don't need to pay $99 or commit to a year (I'm waiting for cable internet to come). Does anyone know if the current setup of Manhattan/NYC Verizon DSL will work with the SpeedStream 5250 SDSL? I know it handles ADSL, as that is what I have. I noticed Verizon's modem looks like it plugs directly into a standard phone jack, which is not the setup I have now (ethernet in and out are on the modem). Is there an ethernet-to-phone line adapter?

I hesitate to open the modem Verizon sent me because that commits me to $99 or 12 months.

Any additional experience or help is appreciated!

Thanks

d.

dfbills · #8 March 21st, 2001, 10:58 PM

PPPoet is supported in OSX 1.0.