[P1] Verizon DSL with Linksys Wireless Router

[Tom R. no spam]

FWIW, I just today set up a wired Linksys router BEFSR41
with Verizon DSL for someone, and it was absolutely easy.
Set up a Location (OS 10.3.2, PowerMac G4) DHCP wired
ethernet; plug router into DSL modem, then into PMG4;
browse to router (using iCab browser, not even M$ IE);
change router's default WAN setting from DHCP to be PPPoE,
and enter the DSL account name and password; Oh, Gee, it
all works :-) .  The DSL account is dynamic IP from Verizon.
Router presently serving DHCP to 2 Macs and a Win98 unit
without problems (enabling us to spend like 4 hours cleaning
many viruses/worms from the Win98 unit, my acquaintance's
original question to me a couple of weeks ago having been
"Why might be a reason why these Window$ units so slow?" >_[ )

I've set up a couple of Linksys wired router models with
a different major DSL provider in another state, and they
were as easy, after that provider got its act together about
having their modem and their service provided as advertised.
I did have to use IE browser to set up one of the units,
which had one different page with an apparently badly
written javascript that iCab didn't handle well.

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Christian Dupuis wrote:
 . . .
> I have a few Linksys WAP11 units in service; the first generation boxes
> required a Windows-only software package to configure (it connected to
> the WAP11 through a USB connection). Their more recent stuff configures
> through a web connection and I've had no problems setting that up using
> OS X and Safari or Internet Explorer.
 . . .