Hi all, Forget DSL!!! Forget it!! If you want DSL you better be prepared to get the business kind because if you get ADSL they will force you into getting that damned SSG Dashboard crap that can not be accessed in Lynx w3 or anything but MSIE. This is their web interface to their routers. When you *can* access it with Gates' garbage, they have decided to write the whole damned thing in Java script. It takes me twenty to thirty minutes to reset my DSL when they time it out, which they do every week or so. Why does it take that long? I have to reboot into Windows. Then, I have to access the Dashboard. Then, I have to find the stupid links to the edit boxes which are not labeled correctly so that the MSAA works properly. Then, I have to keep turning MSAA mode on and off and going through all kinds of machanations to get the damned thing reset. Plus, that's not counting the eleven outages I've had since July 18th! Not only that, Frontier treats me like a child. They call their routers modems, like I'm a five year old kid that can't call going to the bathroom anything but going weewee. They think it is always *my* fault when something goes wrong, it *must* be my fault, I'm the customer, and the customer is always wrong, doncha know!! Those telephone companies, at least Frontier Communications doesn't know its ass from a hole in the ground. They can't run their service correctly, they don't know what's wrong with their equipment when something breaks, and the whole thing is a SNAFU (situation Normal All Fucked Up). Excuse me, I'm sorry folks, I do not usually become so vulgar, but I am disgusted with DSL, Frontier and the whole technology. I'm going to cable on Thursday, and I'm very, very glad of it. If you think that DSL can work in Linux, you need to pay for the expensive kind, cuz the residential ADSL is for the birds!!! Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
