06-30-14 07:06 TOM WALKER wrote to SEAN DENNIS about I Learned Something   
      
    TW> @MSGID: <53B1E039.12992.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    SD> EV> On one page it said to turn the power on the Router before powering   
    SD> EV> up the DSL Modem and Computer.   
      
    SD>Here's what goes on: when you turn on the DSL modem, it queries the main   
   SP   
    SD>server to get an IP address.  When you then turn on the router, it asks for   
    SD>WAN IP address from the modem which it receives.  When you turn on the   
    SD>computer, Windows' DHCP client asks the router for a DHCP address and the   
    SD>router leases an IP to Windows.   
      
    SD>If you shut everything down, you shut down the computer first then all of   
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    SD>external accessories.   
      
    SD>When you power it up, it's just the opposite. :)   
      
    TW> I always left the DSL Modem and router on 24/7 when I had my   
    TW> AT&T DSL. I have Cox Cable service now and stil leave the   
    TW> Modemrouter WiFi combination unit on 24/7.   
    TW> Avoids a lot of headakes for the senile.   
      
   Howdy! Tom,   
      
   I did that for a while after somebody I know suggested it.   
      
   I decided not to keep the UPS powered ON to keep those two devices   
   active.   
      
   I'm still with AT&T DSL.   
   Just read a note on my latest bill from them and the price is going up   
   2 bucks to $30something.   
      
   I still enjoy having DSL to use.   
   I don't want to go through withdrawal symptoms yet.   
   If the price gets too high I may have to suffer the D.T.'s.   
      
   I don't want cable broadband, I was eating at Mr. Gattie Pizza   
   yesterday and saw something on the Cartoon Network TV Channel that   
   troubled me, so I'm not interested in my money paying for all of the   
   other stuff that they send down that coaxial cable.   
      
   It would be very hard for me to turn it down if I lived in Tennessee   
   where their cable TV system has lots of Southern Gospel Quartet   
   Singing.   
      
   But up here, about 150 miles North of Nashville, TN that kind of music   
   isn't as popular as it is in TN and the cable company here don't carry   
   it.   
      
   We see some Over The Air TV shows that we like.   
      
   The other shows we can change the channel or turn the TV OFF without   
   any more cost to us than the few bucks we paid over the Government's   
   $40 Coupon to buy the Digital TV Convertor Box(s).   
   73   
      
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