You use duck tape to hook the DSL into the cable modem silly!
And maybe a stapler.
The whole cost of this stuff is $64.99 a month, no tax.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 2:25 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Got My Mojo today
Mike, sounds terrific! me envious! 2 questions: (1) how much $$,
and (2) how do you hook a cable modem to a DSL line? ;-)
-Ben
>Signed up with Phonom a couple of weeks ago after a bad run in with the
>Comcast "give us 3 hours of your time and we will tell you it's your
own
>f***ing fault no matter what" Technical Support Authority. After they
>threatened to ship me off to a camp for providing conclusive evidence
>there was a problem with their DNS server, I decided it was time for
>something new.
>
>And something new is finally here! Phonom 8mbps DSL and VoIP with free
>long distance nationwide and to Canada (Mexico coming for free too
after
>the burro gets there with the bribe money). The cable modem and the
>voice converter box came today, both are brand new and look kinda sexy.
>I can't hook them up for a couple more hours, but that's not stopping
me
>from putting them on my desk to fight for which is the cooler new piece
>of technology. Currently, the sleeker black voice box and the yellow
>patch cables (the allies) have dominance over the right side of my desk
>and hold major portions of the coffee cup and a speaker. The more
>forceful DSL modem with his array of menacing LEDs has seized areas
>around the monitor and is threatening to cut off supply lines to the
>keyboard and mouse unless he receives some ethernet cables, a business
>card and a bottle of Asprin as concessions. There is some talk that the
>Cisco 7960 series VoIP phone will enter the conflict, but he seems too
>distracted by his own LCD screen to care much about things so far
across
>the stapler.
>
>Anyways, in anticipation of putting this thing online tonight, I called
>technical support to complain I don't know their policies on half-life
>servers or spamming and am too lazy to RTFTOS. I was told that, except
>for excessive call forwarding and fax blasting, I can do whatever I
>freakin' want. "VPN?" I asked. "Sure." "Ceaseless port scanning of
>military facilities?" "No problem." "Host off-color content on a
>personal Web site?" "Whatever, just remember your upstream rate is 972
>baud." "Uncap the modem and fix that little upstream rate problem?"
"Try
>it and you will be reported to the Comcast Technical Support Authority
>who will harshly deal with your insolence."
>
>This rules. Anwyays, since I am so excited about this new setup, I
>wanted to tell everyone to take advantage of the fact I am selling
>targeted mass mailings to key demographics at the price of $30 per
>100,000 recipients. This service will go online tonight around 9 pm.
>
>M
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