Hurray! I'm back :)

Submitted by Chandrashekar Babu on April 11, 2005 - 10:06pm.
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After spending a couple of months on a dialup connection, I feel a lot relieved with my new BSNL DataOne broadband connection now!

The speed ? I must say that it simply rocks, though I must investigate a bit on the modem's (ADSL router) web management interface a little more. Just that I couldn't get connected to the internet following the instructions as mentioned in the modem's manual. The modem happens to be a UTStarcom UT-300R2. After a lot of fisting with its web-management interface, I gave up and tried the other option (running pppoeconfig command on Debian) and the connection came up in a snap!

For some (perhaps superstitious reason), I couldn't still get my Slackware box to connect using the modem. Tried running the 'adsl-setup' from the rp-pppoe package and still no luck. While connection, I keep getting the message 'Timeout while waiting for PADO packet'. Some more investigation is needed to fix this problem.

On the contrary, life on Debian seems more feasible with a stable/faster internet connection that I'm using right now. Maybe its time I switched back to Debian for mainstream work. Oh yes, I still love my good old Slackware ;-).