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NoNukes Inactive Member |
Can't call them because I don't have a phone. Maybe I could get someone else to call them. Grrr... Totally unsat and uncaring service in my opinion. I'd be happy to call them, but that would require you providing me with personal info. Can you get your brother to do it? Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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Faith correctly grumbles:
Can't call them because I don't have a phone. This reminds me of the numerous instruction manuals that have a section on connecting to the internet. They all begin with something like "just go to Forbidden and download the connect app". - xongsmith, 5.7d
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1472 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Thanks for the offer. I was thinking of my brother. I'll email him but first I'm suddenly so sleepy I can't stay awake. Old people need naps.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1433 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
I finally turned my desk around so my back is to the wall and the cords are in the middle of the room where I can get at them easily. It's better feng shui too. Wireless modem at the top of the cellar stairs. WiFi touch-screen laptop can be used anywhere in house or folded up and put away out of sight. That's kung fu feng shui by our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1472 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
This must be a wireless modem. That would explain its not needing a wall jack.
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
This must be a wireless modem. That would explain its not needing a wall jack. Surely there is a wired connection brought into your house at some point. Because phone signals are not carried over wifi. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1472 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Can't reach my brother. I think this may sit until Monday unless I find a way to get my arm behind the bookcase.
Thanks for everybody's input.
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Percy Member Posts: 22500 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Faith writes: Can't call them because I don't have a phone. Maybe I could get someone else to call them. They should have a "Contact Us" link on their webpage. Click on that and it should list several different ways of contacting them. One of them will be a phone number, but there will likely also be an email address, and another might be an online form, and another might be a "Chat Now" link. --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22500 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Faith writes: This must be a wireless modem. That would explain its not needing a wall jack. Could you describe how many wires come out of what you're calling your "modem" and where they go? --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22500 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Taking a shot here and making a guess that Faith's new DSL modem has an internal DSL splitter for her phone, like this diagram I found:
Faith, is there a place on the back of your modem to plug in a phone cord? If yes, do you have a spare phone cord? If yes, unplug the current phone cord from your phone and just drop it behind your bookcase where you'll never have to touch it again. Now, using the spare phone cord, plug one end into the back of the modem, and plug the other end into your phone. If no, have your brother bring over a spare phone cord, then carry out the previous step. --Percy
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ringo Member (Idle past 439 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Nice rotary dial phone.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1472 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Faith, is there a place on the back of your modem to plug in a phone cord? Yes, that's where the end that is now in the wall jack is supposed to go.
If yes, do you have a spare phone cord? I might have as a matter of fact but finding it is probably out of the question.
If yes, unplug the current phone cord from your phone and just drop it behind your bookcase where you'll never have to touch it again. Now, using the spare phone cord, plug one end into the back of the modem, and plug the other end into your phone. Somebody else suggested this too. Maybe I can find the cord. What a nice simple solution after spending days moving heavy things. Oh well, it needed to be done some time.
If no, have your brother bring over a spare phone cord, then carry out the previous step. He may not be able to come down for days. I'm thinking of Oh, and for all those who asked: Yes, the other end of the cord goes to the cordless phone charger. But still nobody knows why I no longer need a wall jack? The modem plugs into a regular electrical outlet, there are no phone jacks anywhere that I know of once this one behind the bookcase is disabled.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
DSL is a way of carrying broadband Internet over the old copper telephone wires. The modem converts the signal on the wires to the standard computer networks - Ethernet and wi-fi. I don't see how a DSL modem could work without a wired connection to the telephone lines.
You should have had a connection for the old DSL modem - since it obviously wasn't plugged into the same jack as your phone - and you should have a connection for the new modem too. I guess that you could have a modem somewhere else and the box you see is a router, not a modem - just a device for sharing the Internet connection. But it seems unlikely. Are you absolutely sure what you have is DSL ? I could maybe research it with some more information (provider, product name, make and model number of the "modem"). But without that information all I can say is that it doesn't sound like DSL.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1472 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
No I'm not absolutely sure it's DSL. It's something called U Verse that AT&T does. Someday maybe I'll read the envelope of information about it that they left with me. I just figured that someone here would recognize what it is and how it works from the description.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
Looks like it's usually DSL, except in places where they take the optical fibre right to the house. Even then I'd expect a wired connection for the phones. Odd.
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