Michel Lambert wrote: >Thank you for your help and sorry for my ignorance. I guess my ISP confused me with >all the supplied numbers. I will take some time reading about Xdsl. > >
Never be sorry for asking questions. Even if you make a wrong assumption at the beginning. Ignorance is NOT asking... H >Thanks > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Hamish Marson >Sent: 10 July 2002 13:50 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [speedtouch] Re: Which number the modem has dialled? > >Michel Lambert wrote: > > > >>Ok thanks. My ISP provides various phone numbers with varying cost. I would >>like to dial the least costly number. In windows this is done by creating a >>dial up connection. How would I do that in Linux. >> >>As I pointed out my ppp connection works fine under linux but at what cost >>asI do not know the phone number the connection is using ( I have not >>supplied one in the connection set up). >> >>I tried to dial my prefered number by using the AT command in the chat >>scriptbut the modem returns garbage. Is there another way? >> >>Thanks for your help >> >> >> >> >> > >Herin lies the evils of misconceptions of terms being spread by >magazines and others who know not of which they speak. (i.e. that >Broadband just means a fast modem connection). > > >xDSL is implemented (Almost exclusively, someone correct me if you can >get it commercially as explicity NOT a broadband connection) as a >broadband connection. Broadband DOES NOT mean high speed. Broadband >means there is more than one signal on a single connection. In this >context broadband means you have a telephone signal AND an xDSL >connection from your premises to the exchange. > >At the exchange the signals get split (By a filter) and the telephone >signal gets passed to a switch, and the xDSL signal gets passed to a >device that is essentially a bridge to an ATM network (Doesn't have to >be ATM, could be anything I guess). > >This is completely different from a normal analogue dialup modem that >uses your actual phone connection to open an analogue path from your >phone jack to your ISP using the public switched network. (That's just >another phone call, no special hardware required) > >The gist of it is that you don't dial up anything to gte your xDSL >connection. The bits that pass across your DSL connection are routed via >your network provider (BT Broadband in my case) to your ISP (BT >Openworld, NOT the same as BT Broadband). As far as any IP level >consideration is concerned, you have a direct IP link from your home to >your ISP 24x7. > > >[I've simplified a few bits, you could expand it for several pages if >you like :) ] > > > >>ML >> >> >> >> >> >>>From: Edouard Gomez >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [speedtouch] Re: Which number the modem has >>dialled? >Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:55:21 +0200 >>>Michel Lambert >>([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>>How can one verify which phone number the >>usb modem has dialled for >>any given ppp session. >>You can't. Your adsl >>connection is a direct connection between your >modem and the ISP's atm >>switch. So you do not need dialing to a "phone >number" as in V90/V92 >>technologies where your modem is using the >analogic phone line to >>communicate with the ISP's server. >>Hope this help you a bit understanding >>how xDSL works. >>-- >Edouard Gomez >>>Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL >>SpeedTouch USB >Pour se désinscrire : >>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe >> >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: Click Here[1] >> >> >>--- Links --- >> 1 'http://g.msn.com/1HM1ENUK/c156??PI=44363' >> >>Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB >>Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >-- > >I don't suffer from Insanity... | Linux User #16396 >I enjoy every minute of it... | >| >http://www.travellingkiwi.com/ | > > > > > > >Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB >Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribeGet >more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > >Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB >Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > > > -- I don't suffer from Insanity... | Linux User #16396 I enjoy every minute of it... | | http://www.travellingkiwi.com/ | Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
