seeking advice for speeders

[Janina Sajka]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> I really appreciate all the responses so far -
>
> I had a long talk with a phone company sales rep the other day and he made
> the whole thing sound so easy and inexpensive that I now do not believe a
> word he told me! 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
> says the modem is free, no installation fee, no hardware needs to be put
> inside my machine. He says the disk that comes with it has software both
> for Windows and for Linux systems. 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.
>
> I understand about bandwidth sharing - the economics and time-of-day
> distribution problem, but hell, I have that problem even now occasionally,
> although my ISP has greatly improved its throughput in the last year or
> so. The system supervisor at my ISP is a Linux freak too
> (woops! enthusiast) although the tech support staff is not. He monitors
> their email traffic, so when I ask  a question of them he has often
> intercepted my queries himself - he says he "looks forward" to my
> email. Well hell, I look forward to his too. I have not yet talked to my
> ISP about it, because I expect they will badmouth DSL in view of their
> promotional stuff right now. The phone company had nothing to say about
> cable at all.
>
> The monthly cost for me with DSL would be about twice what I am presently
> paying for my second line, which is easily within my budget. I am leaning
> toward DSL.
>
> Thanks again - Chuck
>
>
> Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh  (Yahoo ID: hallenbeck2002)
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