From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 20 15: 9:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.arch.bellsouth.net (ns1.arch.bellsouth.net [205.152.173.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F29B37B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:09:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by ns1.arch.bellsouth.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id SAA24149 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:09:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from UNKNOWN(24.31.106.127), claiming to be "bar" via SMTP by ns1.arch.bellsouth.net, id smtpdAAA0NwkYr; Sat Jan 20 18:09:07 2001 From: "Christian Kuhtz" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: RE: bellsouth dsl? Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:08:42 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010120145808-r01010600-0835edb4@192.168.100.2> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > That's BS. I have PacBell DSL and I could have set the thing up > myself on my MAC. > I have a Alcatel SpeedTouch. The only thing that I couldn't do was > the actuall > line splitting on the box outside (mainly because it was in a > locked box!). I > think they just want to dip into your wallet. WAIT A SECOND. Are you also aware of the fact that the phone company would love nothing more than *NOT* to have to send out a tech? (huuuuuuge part of DSL deployment cost). This is very much dependant on the modem type, and it isn't the phone company's best interest to send a tech out. TRUST ME. ;-) Truck rolls cost mucho dinero. > Personally, I think they know the USB modems are slower than the > ethernet ones and > can't give them away, so they're charging you for the good ones to > discourage > people form using them. I mean, come on, USB is what, 1.2MB/Sec? Nonsense. USB is 12Mbps or 1.5MBps. http://www.usb.org/faq/ans2.html#q1 > That's a slow > down when PacBell tells me that I can get 384K-1.5MB/sec downstream. They probably are telling you that you can get 384Kbps to 1.5Mbps downstream. Megabits, not megabytes. > So yeah, I think they're trying to screw you on that one. You think, huh? I find this rather amusing ;-) > I really really REALLY don't like the phone company...if you didn't notice. No comment. But it would help if you get your facts straight first, and perhaps things look just a little different. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz -wk, -hm Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S. "I speak for myself only." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message