[clue-tech] DSL providers

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:38:43 -0700
Nate Duehr wrote:

> their screens require that you
> have one... either themselves (which is actually MSN these days, not
> really Qwest -- if you're a residential customer, although if you talk
> to them correctly you can use Qwest and business users get Qwest's
> infrastructure also), or another ISP.

Which screens are you talking about?

> I think an order for a DSL circuit "without an ISP termination" would
> go nowhere fast in Qwest's system... if you used that terminology and
> they handled it, great... they just put in the default -- themselves
> or MSN.  Their order-taker kids really don't know the difference, but
> their supervisors (usually) do.

Wrong. It's what I have. What is so hard about that?

> But the definition of an ISP still stands... 

Except that that's not how it's used by those who provision service -- at
least not those who take orders for Qwest.

Bah!

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