On Tuesday 29 August 2006 23:59, Claude Jones wrote: >On Tuesday August 29 2006 8:25 pm, Claude Jones wrote: >> On Tuesday August 29 2006 6:09 pm, taharka wrote: >> > Doe's the following link help you? >> > >> > http://www.dslreports.com/faq/vz/4.+Hardware#13600 >> >> Yes, thank you. My model DSL modem is different, but it appears that >> the principles are identical. I'll have to wait till after the >> household has gone to bed to try it, as net access is needed right now. For a linksys product, AFAIK you can log in and change that stuff (port forwarding) anytime. If theres a disturbance in the data flow, I haven't noticed it. >Taharka: I got around to trying this, and everything seemed to be OK, > except I couldn't get out to the net. There's an additional page linked > to from that site, and I'll have to take a look, as it is for the > exceptions that don't just work. It turns out they had a section for my > DSL Modem, and I just missed that on first glance. One thing that's > seemingly disconcerting, is that you don't seem to be able to connect to > the DSL modem using the web address once you put in in bridge mode and > save. The only way I could get back was to reset the thing with the > hardware button, and that then forced me to go through the whole > registration process again with Verizon. But, I'm back to where I was. >-- >Claude Jones >Brunswick, MD, USA -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.