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Phil A. Buster
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Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:30 am Post subject:
AOL DSL Sharing |
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I set up a router for a client on AOL DSL per AOL's 'home networking'
instructions. It connects properly and basically works, but there seems to
be a DNS performance issue. When trying to open Web sites in Internet
Explorer (with AOL software not running) it is often necessary to try 3 or 4
times to get them to open getting not found errors initially. The router is
a Netgear model recommended by AOL, the MTU is set to 1400 per their spec.,
and the modem is a Broadband Blaster.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? Is anyone else using AOL DSL with a
router without problems?
Thanks.
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Gary A. Edelstein
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Wed Sep 15, 2004 9:23 pm Post subject:
Re: AOL DSL Sharing |
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:30:49 GMT, "Phil A. Buster" <x@y.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I set up a router for a client on AOL DSL per AOL's 'home networking'
instructions. It connects properly and basically works, but there seems to
be a DNS performance issue. When trying to open Web sites in Internet
Explorer (with AOL software not running) it is often necessary to try 3 or 4
times to get them to open getting not found errors initially. The router is
a Netgear model recommended by AOL, the MTU is set to 1400 per their spec.,
and the modem is a Broadband Blaster.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? Is anyone else using AOL DSL with a
router without problems?
What happens when you connect with the AOL client, minimize it and |
then run IE? Could be that has to be done to have full connectivity.
Gary E
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Phil A. Buster
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Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:59 pm Post subject:
Re: AOL DSL Sharing |
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| Quote: | On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:30:49 GMT, "Phil A. Buster" <x@y.com> wrote:
I set up a router for a client on AOL DSL per AOL's 'home networking'
instructions. It connects properly and basically works, but there seems
to
be a DNS performance issue. When trying to open Web sites in Internet
Explorer (with AOL software not running) it is often necessary to try 3 or
4
times to get them to open getting not found errors initially. The router
is
a Netgear model recommended by AOL, the MTU is set to 1400 per their
spec.,
and the modem is a Broadband Blaster.
Does anyone have any ideas on this? Is anyone else using AOL DSL with a
router without problems?
What happens when you connect with the AOL client, minimize it and
then run IE? Could be that has to be done to have full connectivity.
Gary E
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Thanks for the idea, but it doesn't help. Once the router is there it must
establish the PPOE connection and do the login to AOL. Otherwise, it's not
possible to connect at all even by opening AOL software. Once connected,
you can then open AOL software (with a different screen name), but it
doesn't help the performance issue. Also, AOL documentation is very
specific that it is not required to use AOL software when connecting through
a router.
I called AOL support, an total exercise in futility. According to some
discussion in broadband forums, this is a widespread problem. I suspect
that there are issues in their PPOE connections that aren't involved when
using AOL software directly through the DSL modem with their proprietary
protocol. |
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