| Art Alexion on 22 Jul 2005 15:36:48 -0000 |
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Stewart B. Lone wrote: > Am dumping my old ISP 56k service. Ordered the Verizon DSL service. > When speaking to customer service rep she asked whether I was running > windows or an apple os, as the wireless modem they would be shipping > was different for the different os`s. I replied that I was running > linux and she said whats that. I chose the apple model as I figured > that would be closer to my requirements. Did I make the correct choice? I've probably called Verizon 6 times in the past year and got no confused people when I mentioned running Linux. Probably twice, the rep was actually conversant, but the other times, they assumed that I knew the commands, but they did the diagnostics on their end without complaint. When calling support, you are asked "Press 1, for Windows, Press 2, for Macintosh, and Press 3, for another operating system". I always press 3. BTW, I have the Westell Wirespeed modem, using rp-pppoe on Ubuntu Hoary, with IP Masq instead of a hardware router, and everything works fine. -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC arthur [at] alexion [dot] com aim: aalexion sms: 2679725536 [at] messaging [dot] sprintpcs [dot] com PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html Key for signed PDFs available at http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________ Attachment:
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