DSL to Router Help

Chernabog · 01-17-2008, 02:48 PM

^^ Totally true. I see that difference all the time lol... so frustrating.

Though I think all my Everquest training paid off -- if I see an overhead map of an area, I can usually figure out where I am and where I'm going to, even if there's a forced detour.

SO back on topic -- call me naive here but -- you can have an AT&T DSL line WITHOUT having to pay for a telephone line???? They told us no.... we have a lifeline with AT&T which we never use. All that happens with that line is that people call with advertising.

BarTopDancer · 01-17-2008, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Chernabog

^^ Totally true. I see that difference all the time lol... so frustrating.

Though I think all my Everquest training paid off -- if I see an overhead map of an area, I can usually figure out where I am and where I'm going to, even if there's a forced detour.

SO back on topic -- call me naive here but -- you can have an AT&T DSL line WITHOUT having to pay for a telephone line???? They told us no.... we have a lifeline with AT&T which we never use. All that happens with that line is that people call with advertising.

$23.99 a month baby! Link to the Consumerist here and this is the site I looked over before I called.

It's part of their merger agreement - along the lines of the super secret $10 a month DSL that no one could ever get access to. This was easy. Took 10 minutes (no hold time) to set up. The modem came in 3 days ($49.99 + $15 shipping, no, they won't wave it) and the service was set up on the date they promised. Customer service has been great too.

Alex · 01-17-2008, 03:33 PM

I have no idea how Lani and I split along these lines.

If I have a superpower it is that I pretty much never literally get lost. I can read even crappy maps with precision, and if I've ever been somewhere I can almost always get there again (we had good ice cream in a small Oregon town when I was about 12 and I didn't visit that town again for almost 20 years and said "hey, let's see if that ice cream place is still there and went right to it).

So, since when we're both in the car I'm driving it isn't ever an issue.

Oddly, though, I never have any real sense of which direction is north (I mean, I can work it out from the sun if I need to but in terms of just a general sense of compass direction I lose it quickly).

Chernabog, I think phone companies offering DSL without landline is relatively new (when we had DSL we were also told that we couldn't do that but when we moved recently it was option they tried to sell us on but we've been without landline for three years now and won't be going back). Though last time I looked it was almost as much as having both the phone and landline anyway.

Ghoulish Delight · 01-17-2008, 03:42 PM

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Oddly, though, I never have any real sense of which direction is north (I mean, I can work it out from the sun if I need to but in terms of just a general sense of compass direction I lose it quickly).

I'm the same way. I'm more of a relative directions kinda guy ("This side of the freeway, past that main street if you're heading towards the big sign"). And yeah, if I've been somewhere once, I can get there again.

Cadaverous Pallor · 01-17-2008, 08:48 PM

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I'm the same way. I'm more of a relative directions kinda guy ("This side of the freeway, past that main street if you're heading towards the big sign"). And yeah, if I've been somewhere once, I can get there again.

And I'm the opposite, rather good at knowing where I'm facing on the compass, but useless with revisiting places until the 5th time driving there.

01-17-2008, 02:48 PM	#1
Chernabog Biophage Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Moon Posts: 2,679	^^ Totally true. I see that difference all the time lol... so frustrating. Though I think all my Everquest training paid off -- if I see an overhead map of an area, I can usually figure out where I am and where I'm going to, even if there's a forced detour. SO back on topic -- call me naive here but -- you can have an AT&T DSL line WITHOUT having to pay for a telephone line???? They told us no.... we have a lifeline with AT&T which we never use. All that happens with that line is that people call with advertising. __________________ And they say back then our universe Was a coal black egg Until the god inside Burst out and from its shattered shell He made what became the world we know ~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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01-17-2008, 03:33 PM	#3
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I have no idea how Lani and I split along these lines. If I have a superpower it is that I pretty much never literally get lost. I can read even crappy maps with precision, and if I've ever been somewhere I can almost always get there again (we had good ice cream in a small Oregon town when I was about 12 and I didn't visit that town again for almost 20 years and said "hey, let's see if that ice cream place is still there and went right to it). So, since when we're both in the car I'm driving it isn't ever an issue. Oddly, though, I never have any real sense of which direction is north (I mean, I can work it out from the sun if I need to but in terms of just a general sense of compass direction I lose it quickly). Chernabog, I think phone companies offering DSL without landline is relatively new (when we had DSL we were also told that we couldn't do that but when we moved recently it was option they tried to sell us on but we've been without landline for three years now and won't be going back). Though last time I looked it was almost as much as having both the phone and landline anyway.
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