As I'm one of the lucky bastards who lives in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood -- where CenturyLink is rolling out gigabit fiber -- I eagerly signed up last night. Can't wait to ditch Comcast after like 16 years, hehehe.
DSL is brand new for me, so I've been devouring as much information as I can find. I understand that the connection uses PPPoE (why not just plain Ethernet? sigh) and that outbound traffic from my house must be tagged with VLAN 201. Unfortunately, my Cisco RV220w router can't apply tags to the WAN port. So when I placed my order I said I'll spend $99 for the modem; I hope they bring a Technicolor C2000T, it seems more "featureful" than the Actiontec C2000A-D.
Does anyone know if it's possible to have Clink remove the VLAN 201 requirement? If so, then I suspect I wouldn't need to use any of their gear at all and I could continue using my RV220w. I really like that little router, it's rock solid and has been running for a few hundred days now without any hiccups at all.
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