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Frontier DSL & DM200 Modem Issues
So, I have DSL through Frontier (Their highest tier, yet biggest joke of a plan: Business Extreme) and my biggest issue right now is not speed, but the number of users that can use the service. Once ...
> So, does anyone have ANY experience with Frontier's DSL offering?
Not I, but...
> Any suggestions?
One, perhaps.
> I have the PPPoE username / password and VPI/VCI, and have quadrupal
> checked with four different Frontier reps. Still, no dice.
What kind of "no dice"? Does the DSL stuff fail to link/train, or is
the failure in the DSL/PPP credentials?
I know nothing about the DM200, but some versions of Netgear firmware
(on some kinds of hardware) fail properly to handle some special
characters in a DSL/PPP password. The case I found involved a "<" on a
DGN2200v4 (V1.0.0.86_1.0.86). Someone else reported here that ";"
caused trouble on his D6400 (V1.0.0.60) in the UK. I assume that any
UNIX-shell-special character could trigger the defect. (Or, perhaps any
HTML-special character.) In any case, if your DSL/PPP password contains
more than alphanumeric characters, it might be worth running the
experiment. In my case, adding a backslash escape character (in the Web
interface) worked around the problem: "abc<def" -> "abc\<def". The
fellow with the semi-colon changed his password to remove the ";".
https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1354547