I Now Have DSL

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

I now have DSL.  As someone who did their first computer interface in 1957 
I am always amazed at how well the automatic interconnection stuff 
works.  Once I got the DSL system going, I went to read my e-mail.  Of 
course the e-mail browser was still set to use a dial up connection.  Not 
seeing any place to select ethernet, I just deselected the use dial up box, 
and it worked!!   Boggle.  This from someone who spent two years and 
several lawyer years trying to connect something to an IBM-650 in 1959.  We 
had a 109 pin connector and we just had to guess what the pins did.  IBM 
would not tell us, even though we had a Government Secret Level 
Project.  Sigh!  You young whipper snappers don't know how good you have it.

I am not (yet) paying the $15 a month extra to get a fixed IP address.  If 
there is a need, I can do it.  It is ADSL so not much good for sending big 
images.

Tom Droege