caddmannq
11-22-2002, 6:08 PM
Since moving, I've been able to sign up for DSL with SBC/Yahoo DSl. Last night, I finally got all the stuff together & did the install.
First rant: PacBell sold me a DSL contract, set me up for a self install, & mailed me the stuff. I set up the line & it worked fine. The next day, a tech comes out & leaves me a message saying that it wasn't working & they'd have to come dig up my phone cable. I've tried to call back three times to say that it is working & not to dig up my street, but nobody will reply. So far this wire has been the best connection I've ever had.
2nd Rant: The Yahoo readme's claim that IE 5.0 would work, but that I'd be given the opportunity to upgrade to IE 6.0. In fact, it never asked me, and just did it. Considering the probs I had when last trying IE 6.0, I was very miffed.
But the SBC supplied Speedstream DSL Modem, my new Gigafast broadband ethernet router, and Smartlink 10/100 NIC all worked well together, and I was soon installed, registered, logged on, e-mailing & surfing just like those happy guys on the TV commercial.
Then I went to bed.... Big mistake.
3rd rant: I booted my PC this morning to get 3 errors: "vredir.vxd is missing", dfs.vxd is missing" and msn32s.dll (or something like that) is missing." I ignored it & got some coffee while it booted up.
4th rant When I tried to log on this morning, it would not connect. The messages told me that I couldn't connect to the "target server". Grrrrr..... The lovely-to-look-at Yahoo connection mannager GUI software was totally worthless at getting me on-line. I bypassed the router & it connected & logged on just fine. But my router was working just fine when I used it last night!
Crap! :(
<----disgruntled Yahoo customer, Cadd.
First rant: PacBell sold me a DSL contract, set me up for a self install, & mailed me the stuff. I set up the line & it worked fine. The next day, a tech comes out & leaves me a message saying that it wasn't working & they'd have to come dig up my phone cable. I've tried to call back three times to say that it is working & not to dig up my street, but nobody will reply. So far this wire has been the best connection I've ever had.
2nd Rant: The Yahoo readme's claim that IE 5.0 would work, but that I'd be given the opportunity to upgrade to IE 6.0. In fact, it never asked me, and just did it. Considering the probs I had when last trying IE 6.0, I was very miffed.
But the SBC supplied Speedstream DSL Modem, my new Gigafast broadband ethernet router, and Smartlink 10/100 NIC all worked well together, and I was soon installed, registered, logged on, e-mailing & surfing just like those happy guys on the TV commercial.
Then I went to bed.... Big mistake.
3rd rant: I booted my PC this morning to get 3 errors: "vredir.vxd is missing", dfs.vxd is missing" and msn32s.dll (or something like that) is missing." I ignored it & got some coffee while it booted up.
4th rant When I tried to log on this morning, it would not connect. The messages told me that I couldn't connect to the "target server". Grrrrr..... The lovely-to-look-at Yahoo connection mannager GUI software was totally worthless at getting me on-line. I bypassed the router & it connected & logged on just fine. But my router was working just fine when I used it last night!
Crap! :(
<----disgruntled Yahoo customer, Cadd.