# Anyone use Verizon DSL?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 18, 2000, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-verizon-dsl/46122 "2000-12-18T07:37:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-verizon-dsl/46122/1 "2000-12-18T07:37:02Z")

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And if you do, do you know their policy on multiple machines? Will I be able to patch several boxes into the DSL router via a hub and get multiple routable IPs for no more money, or will I have to set up an IPmasq box?

The FAQs I found on the Verizon site are hopelessly lacking in useful information ☹

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**Author:** ![Barney111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Barney111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barney111)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-verizon-dsl/46122/2 "2000-12-18T11:36:06Z")

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I use Verizon DSL.

You only get one IP adress, but you can share it with a router(not a hub). They will allow you to share it, but they won’t support it.

Also, they use PPPOE (point-to-point protocol over ethernet) to dynamically allocate a new IP address every new session. It can be a bit of a pain, but it’s much safer than a static IP. Best to get a router that supports PPPOE, so you don’t have to patch things together.

Good Luck.

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**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-verizon-dsl/46122/3 "2000-12-18T16:00:45Z")

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> Think of the EtherFastCable/DSL Router with 4-Port Switch as a kind of splitter for your Internet connection. Just connect your DSL or Cable Modem to the Router, and all the computers in your household...

This is a good router for this sort of thing. Plus it acts as a firewall. Shop around you should beable to find it for cheaper

PPPoE does not make anything safer that is just a lame excuse to feed you to make you put up with what a pain it is. The real reason that they use PPPoE is so that you cannot run a sever very easily. If IP address is dynamic you can’t you have to tell people what you address is over and over again…

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-use-verizon-dsl/46122/4 "2000-12-18T19:39:31Z")

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Thanks for the replies. I’m well aware of the pain-in-the-arse-ness of PPPoE. I won’t bother investing in an actual router, though. I’ll just set up an old Linux machine with two NICs as a router/firewall/NAT gateway for the rest of the network.