[SunRescue] Finally got DSL

[Gregory Leblanc]

On 31 Dec 2000 20:33:59 -0500, Darryl Barile wrote:
> Ok.
> 
> So as a complete idiot to the current state of DSL
> service what is the proper way to proceed?

First, read the DSL HOWTO at the LDP.  :)  It's got lots of good info,
and despite being hosted at the Linux Documentation Project, it's mostly
*nix centric, and not so Linux centric.  Oh yeah, and I helped re-write
some portions of it, so I have read it.

> I'd love the speed but I just can't bring myself to
> sign up for the service when neither the telephone
> company nor myself is well versed enough to know
> what they are doing.

Unfortunately, there aren't any DSL techs working for the RBOCs yet,
they just send telephone techs who can plug in the box, and if it has
blinky lights, they assume it works.  That said, I've had my DSL for
more than a year now in the Pac Northwest, and I didn't have any trouble
getting it running.  The only problem that I have with it is that when I
turn on my desk lamp that sits next to my 675, the 675 locks up.  It's
easy to fix by just un-plugging it and plugging it back in.  I don't
usually even lose my IRC connections.  :)

    Greg