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Re: did the uverse

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From: dye
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:22
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In article <jm3m05$5gk$1@remote5bge0.ripco.com>,
Bruce Esquibel  <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
>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.

Worse, this crappy box just gave the computer (most at that time
were win98) the public IP address.

Exploit city.

--Ken

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Ken R. Dye                               an optimist is a guy             |
Chicago, Illinois                        that has never had               |
http://dye.datsun510.com/index1.html     much experience                  |
dye1146 at g mail dot com                                    archy        |
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From: dye@adsl-64-108-198-132.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net (dye)
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Subject: Re: did the uverse
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:22:30 +0000 (UTC)
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