What is Enternet 300?

[aye29]

Does anybody know what Enternet 300 is? I have SBC Yahoo DSL and every time I want to go online I have to start it? If I dont, my browser tells me that "page cannot be found" as if I weren't connected to the Internet. Isn't DSL supposed to be always on?

 

[Martin]

The Enternet 300 connection software includes the PPPoE protocol, which is nowadays required by many xDSL providers, used mostly for residential ADSL connections. In a sense, it makes the ADSL connection authentication process somewhat dialup/ISDN-like.

Here's some reading on the reasons why ISPs do this nowadays: http://www.vicomsoft.com/knowledge/reference/pppoe.html

I personally hate using Enternet; instead I prefer using RASPPPoE. (http://www.raspppoe.com)