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Happy Monkey · 06-30-2004, 11:12 AM

My Verizon (BellAtlantic at the time) DSL installation went off without a hitch, and has been mostly reliable for several years.

Based upon this experience, I recommended it to my parents. Big difference. It took literally a year of constant phone calls, hardware replacements, software installation, and phone line replacements before it worked. Apparently one of the internal DSL modems they used for a while had a 50% ( ! ) failure rate. Not incompatibility, hardware failure. And they spent months trying to get the damn thing to work in my parents' computer.

06-30-2004, 11:12 AM	#5
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	My Verizon (BellAtlantic at the time) DSL installation went off without a hitch, and has been mostly reliable for several years. Based upon this experience, I recommended it to my parents. Big difference. It took literally a year of constant phone calls, hardware replacements, software installation, and phone line replacements before it worked. Apparently one of the internal DSL modems they used for a while had a 50% ( ! ) failure rate. Not incompatibility, hardware failure. And they spent months trying to get the damn thing to work in my parents' computer. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]