seeking advice for speeders

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi Chuck,

	I'll answer your questions based on my experience:

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-=>  Am I paranoid, or are some of these things suspicious? He
-=> assures me I will not have to change my ISP when I sign up for DSL. He
	What does he mean by ISP? You could keep your ISP and email address that you're using, but unless it's a free one, why would you want ot continue paying for it, when the DSL includes (at least in my case) several email addresses? The advantage would be to retain the same email address that you have. Technically it is do-able, but economically, not practical.


-=> says the modem is free, no installation fee, no hardware needs to be put
-=> inside my machine.
	Many DSL providers have promotions, in which they waive the installation/modem charges. To my knowledge, all DSL modems are connected to your computer via an ethernet cable... thus you need to have an ethernet card put into your computer (unless you already have one in there). Or, maybe someone knows... Is there a DSL modem that connects via USB? Serial/Parallel ports don't have the throughput to work with DSL.


-=> He says the disk that comes with it has software both
-=> for Windows and for Linux systems.
	 Sympatico has a PPPoE package for Linux that I downloaded from their website, but it was not as fast, small, or reliable as the one  I got from roaringpenguin.com. Though they provide a "solution" for Linux, they told me up-front that I was on my own with it, they would provide no support.

-=> He says I can puyt it on my one and
-=> only line (although I presently have two) and use it without affecting
-=> incoming or outgoing voice calls.
	Yes, it all works on one line. You put a filter on every telephone set connected to the line and one on the modem. The filters for the telephones pass the lower frequencies (I think <4kHz), while the one on the modem passes the upper frequencies (>4kHz), thus separating the frequency band for voice/data.

HTH,

		--terry

Name:	Terry D. Cudney
Phone:	(905)735-6127
E-mail:	terry at wasagacottage.com
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