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[StankDawg]

As many of you know through IM drops, my aDSL has been acting flaky lately. I am not being rude and hanging up on people, I was dropping offline (I apologize again).

I use BellSouth aDSL through an ALCATEL USB modem. It hooks to a crappy AMDK6-2/300Mhz/128RAM/XP box whose only job is to SHARE the device and let my other real PCs share/connect through it.

My setup, if anyone cared:

http://www.stankdawg...index_jpg_1.htm

(It has a great interface running locally, but the damn thing wont work when i upload it. The link was changed to point to the plain JPG version)

NOW maybe I can get some work done again!

[Bi0s]

w0w....3 copies of winXP i bet that was expensive


it looks good. i like the diagram. cool

[nick84]

That’s certainly good, news

Nice diagram also by the way!

Well, I haven’t got any fancy network diagram software, so here’s my attempt in publisher:

http://network_diagram.gif

[StankDawg]

w0w....3 copies of winXP i bet that was expensive  

oh yeah, that XP is some expensive shit! Luckily mine was all preinstalled! (That is my story and I am sticking to it!!!)

it looks good. i like the diagram. cool

And the diagram was done with MS VISIO 2002 (also an expensive program that I made at work *cough-cough*). It exported to an interactive page where you could hover over the individual parts and get even more 411 about each item. It works fine locally, but would not execute on the server.

[Evo_Tech]

hmmmm... come to think of it... ALL this softw4re was installed on my box as well... what a coincidence.....



I feel thy pain on the shitty connections however. My cable was crapping out on me every damn time I logged on. I'd have to power-cycle the damn modem several times before it would connect, and then I had a damn 10 minute window before I would get kicked off anyway!

.argh.

...but, low, through much bitching to cable company, i have now recieved a new modem.

and thus all is well in ev0 land.

[W1nt3rmut3]

i made one of my house, in visio 2k

[StankDawg]

I had been wanting to do a network diagram for my setup for a long time. People ask me and it is hard to explain, so I am glad I finally did it. Did you guys already have these made up? Or did you just do them after my post?

[W1nt3rmut3]

being bored = i made it right then and there.

[nick84]

I made mine right “then and there” also
Who could resist the opportunity to show off their network?

(BTW A couple of those machines on my diagram don’t have screens such as my server etc)

[holy_handgrenade]

StankDawg, Those usb dsl modems kinda suck.

I used to work for a company that resold the Bellsouth DSL doing "Broadband Installation Support". The usb modems tend to be rather flaky. I'd suggest going with an ethernet router/modem - you *should* be able to have BS rma you an ethernet modem.

[StankDawg]

dude, that would be Sooooooo sweet to get a new one. I tried once with BS support quickly to get a new one, but they wanted to charge me 100 bux. Funk that!

I have a friend who still has their old equipment (If you are familiar, you might know the green alcatel "stingray") and I will try it. If it works, then I can claim it was the modem itself, but I am still leaning towards it being the shitty box that it runs on and the drivers for XP.

You got any friends/connections there to rma me a new ethernet one?

The next step might be to get one of the DSL/Cable routers and go wireless. But the DSL line in is not RJ45, so I may still have to pay BS to come out and change that.