Setting up DSL without using installation cd

[dale@fcg]

How could I go about setting up a Verizon DSL connection without running their installation CD, saving time and avoiding the hijacking (alteration) of IE?

[mylanta]

Use the Cd to install the modem and don't do any of the other software is all Dale.

[Seth]

Install a DSL modem? I've never heard of that before. Unless it's an internal modem.

Anyway, Start/Run, type in inetwiz and hit ok. Choose:

Connect using Lan and leave everything in the next window unchecked. Choose no to setting up email and you're done.

[dale@fcg]

Seth,
Please explain what is taking place with inetwiz. How does that activate the dsl connection with verizon?

Rich,
you mean to allow cd to go thru its auto run installation up to the point of setting up account (username and pw) with verizon? At that point just connect to web via IE or Mozilla and be done with the cd?

[Dan18960]

Seth,
Please explain what is taking place with inetwiz. How does that activate the dsl connection with verizon?

Rich,
you mean to allow cd to go thru its auto run installation up to the point of setting up account (username and pw) with verizon? At that point just connect to web via IE or Mozilla and be done with the cd?

Well, I have NO IDEA what Seth is talking about - But Rich is correct!

Dale, you might have to contact Verizon tech to set the modem for Bridging to the router. AND I MIGHT ADD HERE - Verizon uses LINKSYS. So to make your life easier you might want to purchase what they support.

ON CURRENT EVENTS - Verizon is now supplying small businesses with Westell 6110 modems - these have a STATIC ip address. They are NOT "reprogrammable". I spent 3 hours on site yesterday with a client that just got one of these modems. (there was more work than just setting up the modem geez you guys would have my jewels if I left that OUT!). It made the networking so easy - you just copy the static ip of the modem, assign it as the gateway, enter the dns ip addresses, and your online.

Of course, having to figure out what the client had done in HELPING me - took awhile! :hat:

[dale@fcg]

Dan,
Linksys is all I use use, and Verizon has a nice tutorial on their support site for turning the Westell modem into a bridge. I just followed the tutorial, which walked me thru the modem's setup configuration page, choosing "bridge" instead of the default settings on a few dropdowns, etc. Took less than 5 minutes.

you just copy the static ip of the modem, assign it as the gateway, enter the dns ip addresses, and your online.

Would this mean to assign the modem's ip as the gateway and the dns in the router setup page, or as the individual pc's gateways and dns's? Also, how to determin the static ip and dns's of the modem?

[mylanta]

Yeah what Dan says...I meant setup or "cue" the modem for this setup. I have never used any of their software on installs.

[kern]

Well, I have NO IDEA what Seth is talking about

internet connection wizard

[Seth]

Well I can't see how DSL differs from Canada to the United States, but this is how the process works here:

1) You obtain a DSL modem from a store, or from the internet provider.
2) You call the internet provider who initiates the signal to your address and gives you a user name and password.
3) You run inetwiz to let XP know how to connect OR you run a cd from the ISP which pretty much does the same thing.
4) The first time you open IE, the page will open to the ISP's registration site. At which point you enter your username and password, the system registers the mac addy's and you're done.

[Dan18960]

Dan,
Would this mean to assign the modem's ip as the gateway and the dns in the router setup page, or as the individual pc's gateways and dns's? Also, how to determin the static ip and dns's of the modem?

No the static is for the new Westell modem 6110. They are offerring business clients 2 different "flavors", one is dynamic and is configured the way you did and the other is static and required me to work a different way. If I had any input with the client I would go STATIC - so easy. You just setup the router as a Static ip, enter the ip addresses, dns servers, and save the settings! Your done with the modem and the router. There is no user name, no password, no registration page, and NO HEADACHES.:)

[dale@fcg]

You just setup the router as a Static ip, enter the ip addresses, dns servers, and save the settings!


Dan, what is clear to you is mud to me :confused:. I think you are saying that the Westell 6100 modem I had to dumb down from a dhcp router/modem into a bridge modem is dynamic. Correct?

As for the static Westell 6110 that you setup, could you please explain in one paragraph what settings are input into the static router and in another paragraph explain what settings go into the Linksys router? Thanks. :rockon:

[Dan18960]

Dan, what is clear to you is mud to me :confused:. I think you are saying that the Westell 6100 modem I had to dumb down from a dhcp router/modem into a bridge modem is dynamic. Correct?

As for the static Westell 6110 that you setup, could you please explain in one paragraph what settings are input into the static router and in another paragraph explain what settings go into the Linksys router? Thanks. :rockon:

YES - the 6100 IS dynamic - the 6110 is STATIC. The difference is the client request. If they don't ask for a static ip, Verizon will send a 6100. You did right with the bridging.

On the 6110, Verizon gives you the "pass-thru" static ip (for example if you want to assign a static ip on your workstation:

IP Address: 192.168.1.nnn
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1

DNS servers; nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn)

On the 6110, IF you are connecting to a standalone computer - you would go to Network Places / Local Area Connection / Properties / Internet Protocol / Properties and enter the ip addresses provided by Verizon (substitute what you are use to using in Linksys to what they give you). Now if you connect the Linksys router - on the setup page you select STATIC IP and you get a very similar set of entries. You put in the addresses in the router.

This is getting just more confusing as I am writing it - guess because I do this day in and day out I either over simplify or get too "deep".

The bottom line is that with the 6110 there is no username, no password, and no bridge.

[dale@fcg]

DNS servers; nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn)
And the actual numbers used here would be provided by Verizon, correct?

this static modem setup sounds very similar to a DSL setup I did that was not from Verizon, but it was from Cavalier phone company. My client signed up with them for $60 a month for unlimited local and long distance phone service as well as DSL internet connection. Cavalier provided an IP address and DNS numbers that were either to be put into the desktop network card properties or the Linksys router's setup page (after choosing Static instead of PPPoE- of course, I'm used to PPPoE setups with Verizon). It worked (and still does) great.

Isn't setting up Comcast cable internet connection same kinda deal? They provide static ip and dns for you to enter into the router (or standalone desktop network card properties)?