| kat's ISP Guide |
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| Essentials |
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The following is a listing of ISPs and their setup, including routers
and other connection tricks, that are known to work with the different
Phantasy Star Online Systems. It is based on submitted information from
PSOWorld members, and is current as of August 7th, 2003. It is NOT ALL
of the known working ISPs for PSO.
If you have information to be added to the guide, please include the
following information when contacting me:
1) What system do you have? (Dreamcast, PC, Cube, X-box)
2) Do you have dial up or broadband access?
3) What is your internet provider?
4) Did you have to do anything special to make things work?/ if so, what?
(routers, special configurations, tap dancing with yellow pollen, etc)
For each system please specify the connectivity. IF you feel giving your
location out (a city/state/country zone) would be helpful, please do.
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| Gamecube Broadband |
| Belgacom Skynet (Germany) |
Get the PC to share its connection with a proxy, or
a router works too |
| BT Openworld |
With a router |
| Chello Basic (Netherlands) |
Router with 'Winroute' |
| Comhem (sweeden) |
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| Comcast Cable/ Comcast High Speed Internet |
This tends to be finicky. One person has found that
a router (Speedstream SS2604 or a SMC Router) works, others have had to
tap the 'A' button on the moving star screen right before you get to the
information/ship select screen to get the connection to complete, while
yet others have had no problems |
| Earthlink |
Router or modem |
| MSN DSL |
Although it should work without doing anything special,
to get it to work consistently one member has found the need to use a router.
D-Link D-604 is proven to work. |
| NTL (UK provider) |
Be warned that their tech support may tell you that
to make this work for the cube you will need to purchase a second MAC number.
This is not true, if you use one of these two options: You reset the modem
to reset the MAC number by unplugging the modem, plugging the Ethernet into
the GC and switch the modem back on. Or get a router. |
| Plusnet (UK) |
Gamecube Broadband Adaptor to the PC's network card
using a RJ45 Crossover network cable. A router would work instead. |
| SBC Broadband DSL |
Straight through modem or with router |
| Shaw Cable |
Straight through modem or with router |
| Telewest Broadband/Blueyonder (UK provider) |
Straight through modem or with router |
| Time Warner/Road Runner |
Modem or router both fine. Or Linksys Router (Wireless)+
Linksys Wireless Ethernet Bridge works fine too! |
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Wideopenwest (WOW)
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Router used, but should be fine straight through modem
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| Gamecube Dial
Up |
| Maplenet (small Oakhurst CA provider) |
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| 1&1 internet power (Germany) |
0,49 eurocent per minute between 11pm and 9 am. + 5
euro basic per month) |
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| X-Box (Broadband
only) |
| Earthlink DSL |
MS MN-500 router, D-Link DI604 Router, straight through
modem works too |
| Time Warner Road Runner |
Straight through modem or router. Or, Linksys Router
(Wireless)+ Linksys Wireless Ethernet Bridge after having gotten the firmware
upgrade from linksys.com |
| Bellsouth FastAccess |
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| NTL (Uk provider) |
Straight through modem |
| Wideopenwest (WOW) |
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| Verizon DSL |
Cisco router, modem find too |
| Bell/Sympatico High Speed |
SMC Barricade Router |
| *Router notes for X-Box - If you want to
use a router with your X-Box live connection instead of straight through
the modem, the X-Box tech support recomends Dlink routers... but if you
have linksys and can't stay connected, you need to go to linksys.com and
get the firmware upgrade and then everything will work fine* |
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| Dreamcast |
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Maplenet dial up (small Oakhurst CA provider)
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| qwest |
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| Tiscali |
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| FreeServe |
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| Wanadoo |
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| Dreamkey (Oregon area provider) |
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| Blueyonder, AKA Telewest (UK) |
With a broadband adaptor and a router it works |
| 1&1 internet power (Germany) |
0,49 eurocent per minute between 11pm and 9 am. +
5 euro basic per month) |
| Bell Sympatico |
"Bell-sympatico is DSL, however because I had
no BBA for the Dreamcast, I was forced to just plug the Dreamcast straight
into the phone line and completely bypass the DSL modem. Still worked though." |
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| PSO PC |
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Comcast Cable
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Linksys Router or straight through modem |
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