Thanks for the info.  Will never use cable. My choose will now be DSL.

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 03:23:26 -0700, trisha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe I have got my problems solved finally!  Some cable people came
> out this morning to check everything.  It turns out the line going into
> our house is bad.  They now have a line going across our backyard over
> to the cable box thing behind our property.  In a couple of weeks they
> will send someone over the bury the line. They also changed the
> three-way splitter we had with one they said was newer, better.
> 
> So basically, I had a few problems.  One was the initial set up because
> every time I'd call them they would just say they don't support linux.
> Since I couldn't use their set up disk they had to activate my account
> from there.  Then nothing still worked because of the problem with the
> line, which took a while to figure out.  I still had a problem with the
> router set up this morning though too and had to call netgear.  It
> needed to be reset - which I had done, but they had me hold the reset
> button down for 15 seconds then unpower and repower the router, then
> everything was ok!!
> 
> This has been going on since Tuesday, and I'm exhausted from having to
> deal with it all.  I think I'm really going to like faster internet
> service though!
> 
> Thanks for all your help and advice!  I really appreciate it that there
> are people like linux users or whoever on the internet that will help
> out others when they need it.  I hope I can also help out someone too
> someday.
> 
> Trisha
> 
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