Re: AOL Broadband

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 11/28/04


Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:59:58 -0800

MGGP wrote:

> Am curious if anyone else has run into problems hooking up
> a router to AOL Broadband (DSL). The router is a Netgear
> WGT634U, modem is a BroadBlaster. When I browse to the
> router and run the setup wizard it says I'm connected, yet
> the AOL account can't find the DSL modem. AOL and Netgear
> provide little in the way of help. The system is fairly
> new, has no problem if directly connected to the modem.
> Am running Norton Security Center, Windows Firewall is
> turned on (I guess I should turn them both off until I get
> it resolved).
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> MGGP

The last time I set up a router for a client using AOL Broadband as
their ISP (probably at least a year ago, maybe longer), only Linksys
was supported. Check with AOL to see if this has changed. If it hasn't,
then you can't do what you want with any other hardware.

Malke

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