On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, lunaslide wrote:
At 12:54 AM 12/3/98 -0600, you wrote:
If you have a choice, stick with an external modem.
Agreed. Some cable companies won't even show if you say you have *nix installed. Media One doesn't. You just have the drone set it up under Windoze and set it up yourself under linux. Play dumb. A technique that often works well with recalcitrant phone companies around here (Oregon) is to complain of poor quality fax reception. For some reason, fax modems get more attention than computer modems when something's gone sour. Lately, most of the modems I've seen have been fax capable, so you'd only be stretching the truth a little, if at all. (For all I know, y'all do use your modems for faxing). US West has a notable aversion to assigning workers to improve the quality of computer data transfer, but the idea of degrading the quality of that memo on the fax gets attention. (And they don't seem concerned with what OS you're running, the M$ vic- uhh, customers complain at least as much as anyone about this attitude from US Worst).
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