I'm talking about reaching the end of my rope in attempts to get naked DSL working. Since the tech support at AT&T is not competent enough to even tell me what they have done to try and solve the problem, I'm ready to give up and go cable. But I want to anticipate possible technical problems there too.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Geoffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Jim Philips wrote:<br>
> I'm at the end of my rope on getting naked DSL to work from AT&T. So, I<br>
> have a question on cable connections: Is it best to hook up my cable<br>
> modem to a separate jack from my television? Or should I use the same<br>
> jack and have a splitter? If so, what kind of splitter? Where would I<br>
> get it?<br>
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</div>I'm confused. You mention cable and TV, dsl should be coming in on<br>
copper. What does your TV have to do with it? Or are you talking about<br>
power???<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> AT&T has been absolutely useless in solving the problems that arose<br>
> since I went to naked DSL. I have had two visits from technicians who<br>
> looked in the house and tried stuff, but nothing changed. They told me a<br>
> taeh was coming to check the box outside the house. They now say he came<br>
> (I never saw him) but nothing has changed at all. The connection drops<br>
> every twenty minutes or so.<br>
><br>
><br>
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</div>Until later, Geoffrey<br>
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