[ale] Telocity Woes

[Master Wizard]

Ok, I give up. Please explain this 'joke?' to me.
BrainFrozen.

Leonard Thornton wrote:

> Everytime I hear about cable and/or DSL woes reminds me of an old joke
> about company names:
>
> PickTwo High Speed Communications
>
> Good, Fast, Cheap........PickTwo!
>
> At 12:12 AM 11/20/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Well,
> >
> >It is 12am and I do not have a netwokr connection yet.  It appears that I am
> >getting a solid green light on power then later during the hour I get a
> >solid red on status.  I've come to the conclusion this means a failure to
> >connect.  I'm using IE under win98 to configure the unit.  Notice I'm not
> >using the software that came with it.  Tier 1 believed that rebooting the
> >windows machine would
> >correct the problem.  I've should have known.  Earlier today I knew that it
> >arrived and did not
> >rush home to hook it up.  Why?  Because I did not want the emotinal stress
> >of the unit failing to
> >work out of the box.  I had cable modem 2 years ago.  It took me 3 weeks to
> >get it working.  And afterwards it would go down between 8pm - 10pm.  I do
> >not want to revisit those issues.  Tier 1 believes that my DSL gateway unit
> >may be bad.  The odds pf that are low.  Anyone else here have
> >similar issues or can give some uplifting advise.  Like "Forget about fixing
> >it before Thanksgiving".  Or,  "No DSL till New Years's"
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Chris Fowler
> >
> >
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> The difficult while you wait.....the impossible overnight.
>
> Leonard Thornton
> Intelis, Inc.
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> Suite 30
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>
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