"The Net is lobotomized" Topic

I had modem issues today; I went to hook up a new wireless modem in anticipation of the change of phone and DSL providers on Monday the 13th Instant; because I did not want to be unprepared when the moment came to switch modems from the old to the new. Anyway, the new modem would not access the Net, so I put all the cables back into the old configuration: the phones stopped working and the Net still was not accessible, even though the old modem showed all the indicator lights on. I called the new provider and got no joy; I did get the unwelcome news that my order number and account number were wrong; then someone else told me they were right and the previous "right" numbers were mistaken. I talked to my current, soon to be erstwhile provider; and they could not accomplish anything other than to screw up the phone even more: before at least it was trying to connect to the provider for verification, now it did not even recognize us as a customer. Furthermore, the Net remained inaccessible, on my laptop, until I disconnected from our old router, and then reconnected to it again. BUT, only tiny pieces of the Net will open; 90% of the pages I try to access wind up not displaying; TMP is one of a very few pages that I can access. I can't get to Hotmail, or Amazon/Kindle, or Discover or my credit union; I can get to Angelfire, TMP, and before I could get to gmail; but now, a couple of hours later, it too is no longer accessible.

I am not feeling good. Monday is a long way out there, and this can only get worse. And we have no telephone; because we temporarily, stoopidly, tried out a digital phone service. STOOPID! The phone goes down, along with the Net connection, and HOW am I supposed to contact customer support? Only by cellphone, which I personally do not have; and my wife's has limited minutes….

How well do you get along with the neighbors? Do any still have a landline?

One reason I still keep the land line even though I have access to a cell and have been considering a digital service as well.

Did you set up the original modem? Was there a configuration/setup disk?

My AOL dsl setup required a username and password – which happened to be my phone number with a couple extra digits added.

On the other hand my sister-in-laws setup from Qwest required a router setup (which I believe is standard now).

Of course neither explains the partial access.

DSL! How cute!
-Kle.

I still have a land-line.

I keep an analog phone and landline handy. My reasoning is that when the power is out that the phone still works

Unless the power is out EVERYWHERE.

"power is out EVERYWHERE."

You'd be amazed at how strong the phone system is. There's a reason why you never see a window in a phone switch building.

Ceasar, the Phone system is on its own power system. I seem to recall that PacBell could operate for @ 8 days on their own, possibly more if they could get fuel

Everywhere.

Yeah, in all the years we had a land line, I never once lost phone service. So we are going back to the land line next week. I will not be switching back to anything else. This is it. You get what you pay for, and sometimes you pay for what you don't get; as with this experiment in digital phone service: it goes down too often on its own, and each power blip/outage screws with it as well.

I fixed the modem/router problem yesterday, after TWO days of thrashing about between our soon to be erstwhile provider and upcoming provider. The modem/router is an Actiontec PK5000; I was finally able to find out how to change the username and password to mine at my soon to be erstwhile provider; next week, the new provider (Qwest/CenturyLink), our old provider, will of course provide us with their username and password. Right now, the Net is operating swimmingly. The partial Net access went away when I got the Actiontec modem/router going….