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) > The Moon is Waning Crescent (44% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.html Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html
