DSL

[Black02Silverado]

OK here is the deal. We have been on dial up since 1993. Same internet provider. So you can imagine how indepth our e-mail address has gotten with everything we have ever done online and people we know. Anyway, I was just informed that DSL is coming to our little (population 500) town. Every other town around us has had it for a few years now.

 

Since it is the only high speed available and I will hopefully be getting, Can't afford DirectWay and cable isn't available, what do I need to know as far as little tricks to fine tune it once I get it. Keep your fingers crossed that it gets here with in a month. Sprint has been telling me that for 2 years now. But I found out from the Sprint repair guy that was here to trouble shoot a problem with our line, that the equipment is being installed in our towns phone building this week.

 

Thanks

[MCourson]

Put the little DSL filters on EVERYTHING. We kept having a problem until we found out that there was no filter on our alarm. Use a DSL patch cable instead of a phoneline, and make it as short as possible. A while back we had a phone jack problem and we had a phone line running to another room. Our connection speed was only like 500k but as soon as we got it fixed and got a patch cable it went back up to 1.5mb. Make sure you get a modem with an ethernet connection. This allows you to set up a router later on. When we first got it about 3 years ago somehow we got stuck with a USB connecting modem. Bellsouth thinks that modem is broken now....

[the inspector]

GET RID OF INTERNET EXPLORER!!!!! pull up a link to Mozilla Firefox smf download it. got rid of my IE and it's one of the best things i've done. get a good firewall software as well as a good virus pkg. i use a little pkg calle Privacy Erase Pro. it removes ANYTHING/EVERYTHING of where you have been on the net. you have no record in your system and nothing to track where you were on the net itself.

[MCourson]

I would use firefox if it actually kept my bookmarks.

[GF7PE]

it kept all of mine

[MCourson]

Its probably because I upgraded to 0.9.3, on 2 computers here it wont keep the bookmarks.

 

Now Im using Mozilla on my Linux machine and I love it. Im using Mozilla 1.7.2 on Redhat 9.

[SxViper]

Make sure your close enough to your CO before you go through all the hassle of trying to get DSL. Its something like a 1 mile or less. CO is the Central switching office for the phone company. Every town pretty much has one. As for tweaks get your self a router/firewall box for like 30 bucks at best buy. This will help block anyone tring to get into your computer from the outside world.

[Black02Silverado]

Thanks, I'm only a few blocks from the Sprint building. So I should have great speed. Nice to live in town, even if it only 500 stong. I also have Firefox. It works great for me and keeps my favorites no problems there. I have linux on this machine but to scared to boot to it. Maybe one day I will venture on it.

 

Thanks again