Can I switch from a PPPoA mdo

[John Busco]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 06:26:50 GMT, Mike Kincaid
<bxmk...@sneakemail.com> wrote:

>in article eqfpttovaggeo3i8l...@4ax.com, John Busco at
>jbu...@pacbell-nospam.net wrote on 10/28/01 6:40 PM:
>
>> Could my problem be this difference between PPPoATM versus PPPoE? Is
>> there anything I can do to make it work? Is there something I can ask
>> my DSL provider (PacBell/SBC) to do to make it work?
>Just call 877 SBCDSL5 and tell them about the new modem. There are some
>random values on their end like VPI and VCI that have to be changed (some
>modems let you change those two, but they're unlikely to tell you what they
>would need to be changed to, and there could be other things to change as
>well). They may also need to switch your line or account from PPPoA to
>PPPoE.

Thanks for the advice, Mike. It took me a while to find the right
department at PacBell, but once I did, they were able to "reconfigure
the router" connected to my line and I was up and running in minutes!
I think they changed my line from PPPoA to PPPoE. Apparently PPPoA was
something that PacBell used to use, but all the new stuff is PPPoE.