Alternatives to Comcast

[H. K. Bemis]

I cannot count the number of people who would get a new system, plug the
telephone line into their NIC, then call or come down to the store and
scream how our computer killed all the phones in their house.  And that
they couldn't get online at all nor could they place any calls from
thier other telephone lines.

I would calmly point out the NIC with the little bared out telephone
handset and say, don't plug your telephone in here, plug it in here,
where the plug fits and there is a picture of a freaking telephone!

Then I think, why in the world anyone would purchase a sub-1000 dollar
system for gaming and Internet, then use dial-up because they don't
trust VZ or they like sovernet.

Sometimes I feel that there should be a kind of license or mandatory
training when purchasing any computer.  Just to save the sanity of
techies everywhere.....

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 02:21 +0000, VirginSnow at vfemail.net wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:03:47 -0400
> > From: "Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com>
> 
> >   Um.  DSL isn't Ethernet.  It actually closely resembles a high-speed
> > serial connection.  PPP makes sense.  If your DSL equipment is giving
> 
> > it's always doing *something*.  You can't just hook an Ethernet cable
> > up to a phone line.
> 
> Actually, you can.  RJ-11 plugs fit nicely in RJ-45 jacks.  Alas, this
> is not likely to do what you want.  In fact, when that ring voltage
> comes in on the line... ZAP!
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