This thing is F#@&ing BULLS#!t. It keeps restarting itself every few F#@&ing hours.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH VERIZON GIVING OUT BAD MODEMS... IM CALLING RIGHT NOW AND TELLING THEM THAT IM SENDING BACK THE VERSALINK AND KEEPING MY GOOD OLD WESTELL 2200!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

So I wake up this morning and notice that Windows said that my network had stuff wrong with it, so I thought it was just a freak thing... Just now, IRC disconnects and all my IM services go down, then Windows says "A network cable is unplugged"... I run to my modem to see whats going on, the power light is red and its flashing DSL, and all the ethernet lights are off... then they turn on! WHAT THE F#@&! I will *NOT* use a modem that cant stay online for weeks on end like old westy.

NOONE let Verizon screw them with this horrible Versalink! Before the Versalink, I could have my modem and router connected for MONTHS on end without problems... MONTHS, then I get the Versalink and it disconnects twice in less than 24 hours.

Holy S#!t Im mad at Verizon... They REALLY think Im sending my OLD modem back? Theyre getting the Versalink back!

Wow, seriously. Just tell them you would rather keep your old modem and send the new one back. I doubt they're going to send someone out to get it if you do. Even if they do, tell them to F#@& off.

Tech support said to keep old Westy (as I call it)... Since they never even sent me the thing to send the 2200 back, he said to just keep both, and if I get a letter from them saying I HAVE to send one back, call and say they can have the Versalink...  And if they throw the charge on the phone bill he said to just call and they'll take that off right away so they dont lose customers.

Although the Versalink is a good idea, they should really have tested it more before they put it out to the public...  Threfore I am going witth the tried and old 2200 that I know works fine.

My 2200 is just running as a bridge, the Netgear RP614v2 router does the firewalling

Yeah I dont HAVE a 192.168.1.1 since my modems a bridge....

192.168.0.1 is the netgear/

Bridge mode basically makes the modem do the connecting, and the router do the rest (assigning IPs, routing packets, logging into the network, etc).

I just signed up with verizon and got the westell versalink.

So far I haven't had any problems such as my connection dropping.

Hope I just didn't jynx myself...

:I've signed up with verizon and haven't seemed to have to much problems.  I too don't get the bridge concept and even with the short explanation I seen.  I have a westell 327W not quite sure that it's the greatest but for now it works.  I want to know how I can setup my different email account through one browser or is there a better browser that IE?  If the email is a free account such as yahoo, can you still find out their income/outgoing IPA?  This place is awesome and get a great deal of info. by coming here.  So for this amateur computer/net user you guys are doing a great Job. This were the stats for downloads and could someone please explain what exactly an upload is? I'm assuming it's the process of sharing files with someone else. (ex. Winmx)  and why does it take so darn long the other person to get their crap.  Anyhow I get a message a my UDP not setup or don't have any ports??????? You guys help this amateur, please!!!! Another ??? Why is my connection referred and and LAN and is not referred to by WINXP as a Broadband.  Isn't that what DSL/router/modem is. HEEEELLLLLLLP???

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 1253 Kbps about 1.3 Mbps (tested with 579 KB)
Download Speed is:: 153 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Test Time:: Sun Mar 27 03:42:50 PST 2005
Bottom Line:: 22X faster than 56K 1MB download in 6.69 sec
Diagnosis: 90% + Okay : running at 99.21 % of your hosts average (157.246)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-35TRAQDIJ


3/28/05

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 1277 Kbps about 1.3 Mbps (tested with 1013 KB)
Download Speed is:: 156 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Test Time:: Mon Mar 28 04:21:55 PST 2005
Bottom Line:: 23X faster than 56K 1MB download in 6.56 sec
Diagnosis: Looks Great : 0.95 % faster than the average for host (157.246)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-YV5G0OB31

Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 1281 Kbps about 1.3 Mbps (tested with 579 KB)
Download Speed is:: 156 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Test Time:: Mon Mar 28 04:43:10 PST 2005
Bottom Line:: 23X faster than 56K 1MB download in 6.56 sec
Diagnosis: Looks Great : 1.03 % faster than the average for host (157.246)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-64QHUCASM