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 > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > http://www.cwelug.org/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug > _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list http://www.cwelug.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug
