> From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
>
> What you missed, as your apple product was unable to bring you the internet...
No, what I REALLY miss are the irrational assumptions that people with ossified
minds seem to make... NOT! :-)
Our Apple products continued to function quite nicely, thank you. In fact, I
didn't even have to re-boot them; just did "changeip" on the server and
switched the DNS server address on all the clients. Meanwhile, the idiot phone
company tech support, weaned on Winblows, kept insisting they wouldn't
investigate further until I had re-booted my machine. So I lied and said I did.
I KNEW everything was good on my end, because my LAN was working perfectly on
the new subnet!
# uptime
18:35 up 36 days, 4:21, 4 users, load averages: 0.26 0.23 0.24
My Internet was down because my provider effectively stopped allowing their
customers to run servers by insisting we switch to PPPoE. So I was forced to
switch.
I switched to another provider who agreed to let me continue having a static IP
and hosting web servers. This was supposed to take one day. It took SIX DAYS
AND ELEVEN HOURS before the WAN light on my ADSL modem came on!
Both the before and after providers are re-sellers of Telus bandwidth, and
Telus just hasn't gotten the anti-trust memo that decreed that they MUST allow
third-parties to lease their bare copper, and they took an entire week to
switch me from one provider to another.
Yet another reason to hate monopolies...
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Free enterprise: A huge area of the American economy is still noticable to
observers with peripheral vision after they subtract the public sector,
conglomerates, federally supported agriculture, monopolies, duopolies, and
oligopolies. -- Bernard Rosenberg
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
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