SarahAnnAlien's Journal: DSL upgrade

Well, the DSL *gal* finally showed up. She was really, really nice! And now... I don't have internet access at home. Sigh.

First, she couldn't remember the password to her laptop. Then, I couldn't remember the password to my DSL account... I have it safely written down in a little book that I haven't seen since I moved; I don't ever *use* that password since my Airport Extreme has always handled the PPPoE logins for me. She tried to call and reset my password, but their password-changing thingy is down... so at the moment... nothing.

Theoretically everything is set up properly, though, and once they get my password changed, it should all just start to work.

Then I get to try to configure everything properly, with a gigabit internal network and a linux firewall/router. Fortunately, I've been struggling with this same kind of junk at work for a while now, so I don't really anticipate any difficulties... but many, many more annoyances.

On the plus side, the new DSL router came with the cutest pinkish purple phone cable! Unfortunately it's about 20 feet long, and my DSL box is about two feet from the phone jack, so I'll just save the pretty cable for something else. It also came with a yellow ethernet cable, but I already bought several yellow cat6 patch cables. On my network, yellow cables will be for the "dangerous" outer part of the net, while blue cables will be the comparatively-more-secure gigabit-capable side.