[conspire] Att Yahoo Dsl

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:04:53 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:20:53 -0700, john andrews wrote:
> 
>> Can the Dsl service from Att Yahoo work with Linux? I would have to use 
>> it without the Yahoo software which normally comes with it. Could I have 
>> it on 2 different computers? An imac os 9.1 which would have to run the 
>> Yahoo software and also on a Kanotix. Would the connection using the 
>> same userid and password and be allowed on 2 different machines?
> 
> The Yahoo software they use is all web-based AFAIK, and therefore,
> OS-independent. They only give you one IP address for the basic package,
> so to share the connection among two machines you would have to do one of
> the following:
> 1) Hack the black box they send you to make it provide NAT.
> 2) Get a router.
> 3) Multihome one of your machines and use iptables to forward packets.
> In case you care, all their dynamic-IP connections use PPPoE.
> 
> In contrast, DSLExtreme's basic package is four fewer pennies per month
> before tax, providing up to five IP addresses upon request for the same
> price, with no PPPoE, ever. Tech support for both prefer to deal with
> Windows, but in the case of DSLExtreme, that's only when you get to Tier 2.
> Their Tier 1 doesn't care what you run.

One more difference: AT&T/Yahoo apparently charges a $99 one-time setup
fee which DSLExtreme does not. AT&T/Yahoo also had much more restrictive
Terms of Use and Acceptable Usage Policies last I checked.