{"id":65,"date":"2006-11-17T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2006-11-17T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T22:27:00","slug":"fun-with-dsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Fun With DSL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan and I are spending the weekend in Wisconsin, visiting friends.  Part of that time I&#8217;m helping one of them make the jump from dialup to DSL.  It took quite a while today to get all the stuff installed, both hardware and software.  After a few rounds with confusing instructions, I got her email configured for the new address and all worked fine.<\/p>\n<p>Then I went to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/default.htm\">Steve Gibson&#8217;s<\/a> GRC site and ran his &#8220;<strong>Shields Up<\/strong>&#8221; network security test program.  This revealed quite a few holes with the DSL connection.  They were probably there with the dial up but the exposure time is shorter than with the always-on DSL.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this I decided to set up a Linksys router to act as a firewall.  Good idea, but the devil is in the details.  So far I can&#8217;t get the router to play nice with the DSL modem.  To complicate matters, Linksys now only includes the manual as a PDF file!  I really like paper manuals for this sort of work.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m making progress.  With luck I should have it working tomorrow &#8211; knock on wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan and I are spending the weekend in Wisconsin, visiting friends. Part of that time I&#8217;m helping one of them make the jump from dialup to DSL. It took quite a while today to get all the stuff installed, both hardware and software. After a few rounds with confusing instructions, I got her email configured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}