On 2008-08-27, Jack <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> A company that is not a phone co. offered a contract for stand alone
> DSL.
>
> 1) If DSL is always on, does that mean that you're connected to the
> Internet everytime the machine is booted up? Isn't there a switch to
> turn it off and on?
my DSL modem has no switch, if I want to turn it off I unplug it,
if I only want it off tem****arily I disconnect the cable that connects
it to the computer.
> 2) I want to keep a cheap dial-up ISP as a back-up. If all of the
> hardware is installed outside on the NID phone box, isn't it true that
> I can keep my current dial-up without making any changes to the PC and
> phone jack? If so, when I dial up, does it override the DSL?
Yes you can keep dialup, some DSL provides may offer free dialup to
their DSL customers. I have that and an inexpensive pay-per-use only
dial-up account, so I'm covered unless the phone line gets damaged.
which has precidence when both are on depends on the setup, and the
software you use, but I expect that usually the one that was most
recently started will be the one that gets used for new connections.
Bye.
Jasen
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