Can I use same DSL account on numerous DSL modems?

[mikeyddd]

I signed up for a Quest DSL account that connects via a Westell DSL modem for phone number 555-111-1111.

Can I use that same Quest DSL account (username and password), using a different Westell DSL modem and connect to the internet on phone number 555-222-2222?

Thanks.

 

[jimbopalmer]

You CAN use a DSL modem with any phone number provisioned for DSL, from the same ISP as you use at the first number.

You MAY use your DSL modem as specified in your ISP's TOS.

I have a BellSouth client who carries her Westell modem/router from city to city as she visits multiple clinics. So I know it CAN be done and she had each site provisioned so she MAY do it.

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[Crowtalks]

It apparently depends on the type of DSL service you have.

Our ISP uses IP Routing service and I know with our ISP that if you have a Static IP account that the IPs routes have to be built into the local Border Router for the area it serves before the customer can browse.

They can take their router anywhere they can receive a DSL signal and can autheticate with the Radius Server, but if their IPs aren't routed through the BRAS they authenticate through, they can't browse.

 

[confedtech]

If your computers are all at the same location, why not just get a router (wireless or LAN) and just network on the same #? It's much easier that way. If your you're tring to connect teh same modem at different location, and the 2nd # has DSL, you'll need to reconfig the modem each time you move with the # you're using at that time. Or you can go wireless if you're near a hot spot. You'll just nned to have the password. Hope that helps.

 

[vipergg]

Provisioned is the keyword . If they have not provisioned the copper line from the local CO's DSLAM you aren't going anywhere . A DSL modem does not work on a phone number , it just rides the same copper pair as your home phone at a much higher frequency. So in short you cannot just take from phone line to phone and expect it to work.

 

[mikeyddd]

so what i'm taking from this is:

After turning on the DSL modem, and verifying my username and password with DSL Service Provider:

1) The phone number that is attached to the phone line that I'm connecting from is irrelevant? (The phone number is not verified during the connection process?)

2) As long as the phone line has a dial tone and is DSL viable, the DSL modem will be able to connect to DSL Service provider, and thus, be able to connect to the internet?


Am I correct? Any DSL gurus out there?

 

[allteltec]

I work for Windstream the old Alltel. and on our systems if the phone line has DSL activated and we are the assigned ISP for that line you can use any valid Username and Password, I have had the same Username and Password working on 3 or 4 modems at the same time in differt towns. Keep in mind that for a phone line to have DSL it needs to be wire in and out of a DSLAM and be Activated. So systems has DSL build into the POTS card and will put out DSL signal that a modem will sync up to but it will not work if not activated. So of the new DSL+2's will sync up at 32.5 meg on the DSL meter, that is given that the DSL is not activated.

 

[jimbopalmer]

Mikeyddd, if the DSL provider uses PPPoE, I think you have it right. (if it asks for a name and password, it is PPPoE) I would have used provisioned, rather than viable, but if that means you are paying the provider for all the possible phone locations, I think you are right. (The phone number is not verified, but there is no chance they are provisioned without payment)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol_over_Ethernet

If they are not using PPPoE, apparently all bets are off.

I have used DSL with Fronter.net xfone.com and Bellsouth.net, so am somewhat familiar with them.



I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[allteltec]

PPPoA all so needs a username and password assign in the modem to connect in our systems. If you have a static IP with PPPoA it is a real static IP assign to your DSL line. A PPPoE so called static reserves the static IP in the IP pool so when the user connects with the static IP Username and password the static IP is given.