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Can anyone tell me the major differences between DSL and Broadband (specifically Sprint Broadband, SBBD, with the little satellite dish). I called up Sprint to ask about the techy aspect of my connection and the service desk had a hard time answering my questions. The main reason I ask is I was told it was “equivalent” to DSL. So I went out and purchased a Cisco IDSL (804) router and I beginning to thing it is incompatible with Sprints service. Of course their help desk will not provide any assistance (and may want to even charge me more for having more than one computer use the supplied IP address.)
Did I get the wrong router or am I not setting it up correctly? (I’m using the Cisco supplied setup disk, and it asks me for ISDN info and phone numbers, it wants to dial up the connection). SBBD comes with a “Hybrid” cable modem and my demark line is the rj-45 from the modem. I have seen that Cisco sells a 806 router for “broadband connections” I also have access to a 2501 and 1601 routers, can those be configured to use this SBBD service. I want to get away from the little Linksys router I’m using now. (No firewall or IP filtering).
Any assistance you can provide or assistance with configuring the router to use the connection I have would be helpful.
Thanks in advanced,
Steve
Can anyone tell me the major differences between DSL and Broadband (specifically Sprint Broadband, SBBD, with the little satellite dish). I called up Sprint to ask about the techy aspect of my connection and the service desk had a hard time answering my questions. The main reason I ask is I was told it was “equivalent” to DSL. So I went out and purchased a Cisco IDSL (804) router and I beginning to thing it is incompatible with Sprints service. Of course their help desk will not provide any assistance (and may want to even charge me more for having more than one computer use the supplied IP address.)
Did I get the wrong router or am I not setting it up correctly? (I’m using the Cisco supplied setup disk, and it asks me for ISDN info and phone numbers, it wants to dial up the connection). SBBD comes with a “Hybrid” cable modem and my demark line is the rj-45 from the modem. I have seen that Cisco sells a 806 router for “broadband connections” I also have access to a 2501 and 1601 routers, can those be configured to use this SBBD service. I want to get away from the little Linksys router I’m using now. (No firewall or IP filtering).
Any assistance you can provide or assistance with configuring the router to use the connection I have would be helpful.
Thanks in advanced,
Steve