Yeah - the install was a pain time-wise. It was an hour of churning on my old PIII-500. They installed a new branded browser, Yahoo Messenger, games, the EnterNet PPPOE software, and the NIC stuff; as well as the usual half-dozen desktop icons.
I just set up a new account with SBC/Yahoo. They no longer send you your PPPOE username/password - you have to run their monolithic installer to set up your account the first time. After that, though, it's regular PPPOE. I set up a sacrificial Windows machine to get my account info, then blew it all away and set up my Linksys router to do the PPPOE - it's working fine. None of their crappy software seems to be required at the moment.
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Yeah - the install was a pain time-wise. It was an hour of churning on my old PIII-500. They installed a new branded browser, Yahoo Messenger, games, the EnterNet PPPOE software, and the NIC stuff; as well as the usual half-dozen desktop icons.
I just set up a new account with SBC/Yahoo. They no longer send you your PPPOE username/password - you have to run their monolithic installer to set up your account the first time. After that, though, it's regular PPPOE. I set up a sacrificial Windows machine to get my account info, then blew it all away and set up my Linksys router to do the PPPOE - it's working fine. None of their crappy software seems to be required at the moment.