Fellow list members,
The Khar(W) CO exchange informed me that they will be bringing in my ADSL connection by end of March and left a form to be filled up and submitted at the CO. The form has an item that refers to CPE equipment - either rented from MTNL or customer owned. I asked the lines man what exactly does the CPE mean and he was not sure if it would be my D-Link DI604 router or something else. Therefore, the query to this list.
The ADSL setup that I have seen within the SBC/Ameritech (US midwest) network is as shown in the fig. below. The 2W/UTP from CO is terminated on a DSL/Tel. line splitter. The splitter has one RJ11 (for phone) and one RJ45 (for the DSL router OR the NIC in the computer) connector.
________ 2W UTP|DSL/Tel.| 2W -------|Splitter|------ from |________| UTP to Tel. set CO | | RJ45 to WAN port on DSL Router
Hopefully, some of you on this list have already got this service and you are able to share some info on the CPE/router configs.
Is the MTNL ADSL connection setup similar to the above fig.? If not, what does it look like?
Also, how is the IP connection established i.e. DHCP, Static IP, or PPPoE?
TIA.
Regards, Arun Khan