On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 04:44 PM, John Stone wrote: > I'm using BellSouth Fastaccess DSL and am thinking of upgrading to OSX > from 9.2. BellSouth Tech tells me that they do not support X yet, but > has anyone out there used Classic to connect and used X to surf, > email, work, etc? >
This probably just means that they don't officially support it. Which really means that their tech-support droids haven't been programmed to answer questions about it. The line was the same from Excite at Home when they came out to install the cable connection some months back. I didn't want any of their software, so I installed Mac OS 9 onto a small partition and booted off of it for the benefit of the cable guy. That way I could throw away anything he put on that I didn't want without touching my real system. As it turned out, I was able to talk him out of doing anything. I had already hooked up the modem, and I just got the numbers from him and typed them in myself. It worked right away. This amazed him because he thought you needed special software to talk to the modem. It has been working fine with OS X since day one, even though it's "not supported." Unless the DSL people use something really off the wall, like PPPOE instead of DHCP, you should be fine. -- Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville Phone: 502-852-6826 FAX: 502-852-7132 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1440 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20020115/92da608f/attachment.bin
