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G

Guest

Dear Sir,

I find that the manul dial up to the DSL connection each time after booting
is repeated task.

May I know if there is a way to get the connection automatically dial up
just after the booting is completed?

Thanks

Low
 
U

Unknown

Don't understand. DSL is always connected. There is no need to dial. Set
dial up to 'never'.
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

Don't understand. DSL is always connected. There is no need to dial.
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What you say is usually correct, but not always. Dial-up DSL is
available (at a lower price), at least in some parts of the US.
 
J

John McGaw

What you say is usually correct, but not always. Dial-up DSL is
available (at a lower price), at least in some parts of the US.
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Fact is that "dial-up DSL" is not DSL at all -- it couldn't be further
from DSL if it tried. This term is used to describe a dial-up service
which utilizes a compression/caching/graphics-downgrading kludge to make
the dial-up service seem faster. DSL depends on having a low-RF carrier
superimposed upon existing copper POTS circuits and cannot be dialed into.

Here is an excerpt from one provider's (White Mountains) website which
lets the cat out of the bag:

How does it work?
With traditional dial-up methods, the text and graphics that make up web
pages get sent from the server to you over your phone line. Because of
the large amount of data required to be sent, this process can be
painfully slow. Dial-Up DSL compresses this data using a proprietary
technology, and sends it over your existing dial-up phone line. This
compression process allows a smaller amount data to be sent – up to five
times less – making the download time of your web pages and your online
experience that much faster. As an added download time reducer, Dial-Up
DSL stores elements of the web sites you visit frequently eliminating
the need to re-download them every time you visit these sites.

John McGaw
http://johnmcgaw.com
 
K

Keith

Mr. Low said:
Dear Sir,

I find that the manul dial up to the DSL connection each time after
booting
is repeated task.

May I know if there is a way to get the connection automatically dial up
just after the booting is completed?

Thanks

Low
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What is your location. I take it yours is USB Broadband modem. Are you in
UK.?
 
A

Ace

I'll add a small note - some providers force their users to provide a
username and password to a 'dialer' program, which initiates the PPPoE
(Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) connection and establishes PPPoE
over cable/dsl modems.
These dialers are not the same as compressed dialup.
Nowadays, PPPoE dialers are rapidly becoming extinct, but some providers
like AOL still desperately cling to it to control their users.
I was forced to use such a dialer for a 4Mbit cable connection from 2001
up until 2004, until my ISP replaced the modem during a migration to DHCP
based connection management.
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

Fact is that "dial-up DSL" is not DSL at all -- it couldn't be further
from DSL if it tried.
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Thanks for the information. However in this case, it doesn't matter.
My point was that he could well be using what was called dial-up DSL
when it was sold to him, and if so, Unknown's statement "there is no
need to dial" is not necessarily correct.
 

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