one thing i find anoying is

[Scott]

On 05/03/2006 10:39 AM, Derek Broughton spake thusly:
> Andrew Zajac wrote:
> 
> Which ISP would that be?  I have never used an ISP that supported routers -
> unless they supplied it themselves. 

That's changing.  My ISP (Cox Communications) even offers home
networking for which they charge extra.  I felt it silly to pay them an
extra monthly fee for something I could set up myself for the cost of
the router and some CAT6 cables.

So I did.  About 7 months after that they had an outage.  When it came
back I couldn't get it to start back up so I called tech support.  The
first thing she said was "I can't see your computers, do you have a
router?".  I said "yes". She said, OK reset it then you should be fine".
 So I did and she then saw the computers on our network.

That sounded to me like they were cool about it.

I was with BellSouth (DSL) several years ago and I do know that they
refused to talk to you if you had anything but one Windows or Mac-based
computer connected directly to their DSL Modem.

> You have to have a single Windows
> computer (sometimes Mac) connected directly to their equipment.  Any time
> I'm talking to a service-type person, I lie through my teeth and tell them
> I'm using Windows.

I've thought about "lying" if the need arose, but in the past I'd be
told things like "ok, right click on 'My Computer' blah blah blah..."



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