I am amazed that any company is still offering dialup these days and that there
are customers for it.
For DSL, you will get a modem from the service provider, and then you connect
your computer to it directly, or you connect a wireless router if you want wifi
in your house (or the DSL modem and wifi access point will be one unit—this is
what we have, except that our service is FTTH rather than DSL).
Cheers,
Nathan
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> On 31 Mar 2019, at 01:59, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Some significant changes are taking place for us internet bottom feeders.
> Earthlink has been bought out by Windstream (aka Breakwind), and the changes
> are already taking place. At the beginning of the year, the number of lines
> to the dialup modems was cut back, and it has become pretty difficult at
> times to get a connection. There are many times where I connect with
> copper.net, even though I'm not a subscriber. Curious.
>
> A couple of months ago they migrated the personal web pages to another
> server, and while doing so completely forgot to complete the routing. After
> six weeks of no web page I called tech support and they weren't even aware of
> the migration. It took them four days to complete the server routing.
>
> A week later I got an email stating that the migration had been completed
> and that the web pages were now available, but they were now read-only. So,
> I can't manage the page and I guess nobody can download the papers I have on
> it. They also stated that the web pages will disappear completely next
> March. Great.
>
> So, the incentive for statying with Earthlink/Breakwind is slowly coming
> to an end. I can get DSL with copper.net for the same price I'm paying for
> Earthlink dialup. 19CL is installing optical fibre near me, so I should soon
> be able to use DSL.
>
> The biggest hurdle is that I have never bothered to comprehend how to use
> DSL or what is required. So, is there a downloadable tutorial that I can
> read to get ahead of the power curve?
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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