Not true, Ann. Just not true. At least, it's not true of my provider, speakeasy.net, and I happen to know other providers local to the Washington DC area where what you say is also not true. So, I guess we're finding out that one should not generalize from limited experience. On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Ann Parsons wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.asp 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/accessapp.asp
