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The good people over at Verizon Online have finally gotten their collective ass in gear and restored my DSL connection, which was working fine until someone clever at Verizon (the phone company) made a little change.
Their timing was quite exquisite. Today I biked over to the local library (forgetting to bring something proving where I live so they'd give me a card), and spent $1 buying a floppy disk from them (their computers don't have USB) so I could download minicom and wvdial and try to get PPP working. Verizon Online had kindly offered me free use of PPP dialup while I was waiting for them to get things working, but I didn't have a modem, nor had I installed the ppp dialer software. Last weekend I installed pppd, but it wasn't working, and I needed a decent comm program to further test out what was going on. I got home, installed minicom, fired it up, and had just gotten it to recognize my modem and started to stand up to go switch the phone line from my phone to the modem (I hadn't reconnected it yet, and for some reason I didn't connect it with pass-through last time) when the phone rang. There wasn't anybody on the line, but I glanced down and saw the DSL modem had connected.
Then it was only another hour before I went through standard trials, called Verizon Online Tech Support, and they got me running again. It's good to know the universe still has a sense of humor as far as I'm concerned.
Their timing was quite exquisite. Today I biked over to the local library (forgetting to bring something proving where I live so they'd give me a card), and spent $1 buying a floppy disk from them (their computers don't have USB) so I could download minicom and wvdial and try to get PPP working. Verizon Online had kindly offered me free use of PPP dialup while I was waiting for them to get things working, but I didn't have a modem, nor had I installed the ppp dialer software. Last weekend I installed pppd, but it wasn't working, and I needed a decent comm program to further test out what was going on. I got home, installed minicom, fired it up, and had just gotten it to recognize my modem and started to stand up to go switch the phone line from my phone to the modem (I hadn't reconnected it yet, and for some reason I didn't connect it with pass-through last time) when the phone rang. There wasn't anybody on the line, but I glanced down and saw the DSL modem had connected.
Then it was only another hour before I went through standard trials, called Verizon Online Tech Support, and they got me running again. It's good to know the universe still has a sense of humor as far as I'm concerned.
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