Deru

[Vaughn Treude]

Actually, I haven't had TOO many problems with Qwest, other than a
rather humorous couple of service calls a couple of months ago.  But
that's another story.

One disadvantage about DSL I've encountered is that I CANNOT receive a
fax - though I can send one. (Not that I want to do, but banks,
businesses, realtors are stuck on this dinosaur technology.) I've told
Qwest about that and they say there's no guarantee DSL will work with
fax, not their problem.  I ended up signing up Send2Fax.com, which gives
you your own toll-free fax number for nine bucks a month, and converts
the faxes automatically to PDF files.  I'm sure you can get a better
deal than that if you use faxes very little.  But it was worthwhile for
me.

Vaughn

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 16:24, der.hans wrote:
> Am 09. Aug, 2006 schwätzte tg so:
> 
> > I have a question about Deru in general. You will also need a Qwest
> > Telephone line or for what I have to pay the Qwest Fee? Is the Deru ISP
> 
> You need a line from Qwest ( I think there are one or two places in the
> Valley where you can get a line from someone other than Qwest, but mostly
> it's Qwest ). You will have to pay Qwest monthly for that line.
> 
> > service based on / dependent on Qwest or can I choose another phone company,
> > too. What are your recommendations? Any bad experiences with Qwest?
> 
> Like Deutsche Telekom, if you've used Qwest, you've had bad experiences
> with Qwest.
> 
> > My understanding of high speed DSL is that you have one telephone
> > connection. Is this right? So when you are online you cannot make or receive
> > phone calls!? Is there a possibility to make phone calls (no voip!) and
> > internet surfing simultaneously?
> 
> The DSL and telephone can run at the same time. The DSL connection comes
> with some filters that will filter out the DSL noise. It works quite well.
> 
> There are off and on rumors of ways to only pay for a DSL connection and
> not pay Qwest for a phone line. I'm not sure how to do that. Qwest has
> told me that such a thing is possible, but I've heard several people say
> Qwest won't let them do it, even if it is possible.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans