I'm curious....what software is this? Does it have something do with the DSL
>or with browsing the web? Hi: AFAIK the "Poet" in Winpoet stands for "Post office protocol over the Ethernet". Users do not have a permanent IP address but the ISP assigns them a dynamic address every time they log on, as with a dial-up connection, which they keep as long as they remain logged on. Earthlink uses WinPoet software from Wind River for this. Last Friday I helped a guy to get his Earthlink DSL connection up, and it took me 5 hours, 90 minutes talking to Earthlink customer service. However, the problem was NOT with Earthlink or Wind River, but with the #4%@ Windows 98! (W98 asked for a file to uninstall Winpoet and to re-install it, and it wanted the W98 CD-ROM inserted - however, the file was packed in a .cab file so it could not find it......) Regards Erich

Written in response to: re: Windows 2000 and DSL (Curt R: Sunday, September 2, 2001 at 6:54 pm) Responses to this message: re: Windows 2000 and DSL (Curt R: Wednesday, September 5, 2001 at 2:38 pm) re: Windows 2000 and DSL (JHess: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 11:55 am)

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