A DSL Day

We signed up for a bundle of T.V., high speed internet, and phone service. So far it has been a good reminder to get all the details ahead of time.

Things are definitely being setup piece by piece. Right now, I am trying to get all of the pieces for e-mail and a home page for our browser. The browser cheerfully hooks to the old service's customized home page which will be going away soon. If they don't have anything, I may set it my blog or google.

I definitely have all sorts of things hooked to e-mail. Looks like I will be switching for a long time. The only fly in the ointment so far is that we are going from 100 MBytes of storage to 10 MBytes of storage for each e-mail. I maybe making some adjustments such as getting a free e-mail address for managing some of the group mail I get or hogging a second mailbox.

Hooking the DSL up was fun. There were two sets of directions. I, of course, followed the wrong set and put the dual line conditioner on with the modem. The modem does its own line conditioning and just gets hooked to the phone jack and the phone gets connected to it. It only took a few hours for me to think of this. The phone line actually connects to our wire nest which involves a switch box. I still need to figure out if the answering machine picks up or not.

Other fun things will happen next weekend. Next weekend the dish gets installed. This was scheduled for last weekend but weather prevent it. Turns out, employees are not allowed on wet roofs. So, we are hoping for a dry day.

Also, we seem to have a bundle of features on our phone line now. Guess, I should try and figure them out. Who knows maybe the answering machine is out of a job for the next 12 months.