DSL to Router Help

[BarTopDancer]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Alex

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.

[katiesue]

Me too. I'm very good with maps and directions. If I've been there once I can get there again. No idea north/south/east/west though.

[blueerica]

We defy the norm!

I have an internal sense of N,S,E,W and distance. If I've driven somewhere, I can use the force to guide me back, but I prefer concrete names and numbers. Landmarks change, distance and direction never do is more-or-less my philosophy.

Sorry for the massive thread derail, BTD.

I do think it's pretty effing cool that they had the dry DSL available. I had no idea it existed until this thread. Niiiiiice.

[BarTopDancer]

So anyone (besides Moonie) have any actual suggestions they can offer?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Things may have changed, but back when we had DSL, the account was pegged to my computer network card's MAC address. You might want to check the router's interface to see if it has an option to use the computer's MAC address, or to manually enter a different MAC address.

[BarTopDancer]

There is MAC address area. I'll try entering the modems MAC address into there and see what happens.

thank you!

[Ghoulish Delight]

It probably wouldn't be the modem's address. Use your computer's.

[Moonliner]

You can also try this link