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Article #464Re: did the uverse
From: Bruce Esquibel
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:21
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:21
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Cydrome Leader <presence@mungepanix.com> wrote: > well, I don't question that my current modem probably doesn't work at > speeds much faster than I have now. I just recall the days where if you > signed up, you got whatever hardware you needed included at no extra cost. I don't think so, but could be wrong. I think in the early days of Ameritech selling DSL, they might of included the modem, but the modem wasn't a router nor did it do wifi. It was just a blackbox to interface a single computer, you had to run some kind of software on the machine to login and connect to the internet. But you couldn't network, unless you shared the machine to other machines. The modem was free or included with the service, but I don't think they ever gave away the modem/router/wifi device, those they always charged for, maybe as an upgrade to the stand alone modem, then as part of the basic installation later. Again, I'm a little different because I've always had static addresses but I know in Jan of 2002 when I first signed up, there was a charge for the Speedstream router, it wasn't free. No wifi either. -bruce bje@ripco.com
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From: Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com>
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Subject: Re: did the uverse
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:21:57 +0000 (UTC)
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