[PLUG] dsl woes

[Russell Senior]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Bob Vinisky
<bob at cherrycreekdaffodils.com> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 14, 2017, at 5:55 PM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>>
>> That makes no sense.  They can't see past your router.  Your router
>> pretends to be all the devices on your LAN.  Does your computer on the LAN
>> have a 192.168.107.x address?

Can you confirm this for me?

>>
>> The other thing is that Frontier (afaik) uses PPPoE for authentication.
>> That would be running on their modem.  As long as your Frontier credentials
>> are programmed in, you should be fine.  Are they?  You switched from
>> Aracnet/SpiritOne how long ago?  Maybe this is still part of the transition?
>>
>
> Well, didn’t exactly “switch from” Aracnet. (Visions of John Cleese and Michael Palin discussing a dead parrot). They went away and Frontier became my new home. That was a month and a half ago, and the service was ok - - not a good as when Aracnet fed it, but decent.

If plugging into the DSL modem directly works, then my PPPoE theory
isn't very likely.

> Until Tuesday..
>
> The dal modem settings have not changed (or been changed), and all of the diagnostic readings are the same. Same with the ipFire router.

Can you ping the internet from the router?  It is plugged in directly.

Are you sure you haven't scrambled your ethernet cables?