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The reason I have not been posting lately is because we
had an electrical storm here Sunday night. One lightning
bolt hit my back yard (or so it seemed). It totally smoked
my old DSL modem and I got a new one this morning.
When I called tech support, they said they would do a line
test and *THEN* send a new modem. I called back the next
day and insisted that they send the modem first as it smelled
like something cooked. Well it was the modem and the
tech support person could not tell that from my description
of the blinking error lights.
So when it works it is great. When you have to call tech
support it sucks.
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