Still here. Just juggling too many things, so the blog has ended up last on the list of priorities. Research has been bogged down, but is starting to come together (probably because of impending deadlines). Kids’ routines are getting established—music lessons, swimming lessons, grandparent time, media metering, homework, etc etc. Classes are shifting into higher gears. Responsibilities for other external activities are looming.
I’m not depressed; just overwhelmed. I’ll be back.
I’m about to switch my broadband connection from cable to dsl (because that’s what work’s willing to pay for), and I’m trying to figure out what, if anything, I’ll have to change about how we have the network set up here.
Right now the cable comes into an upstairs bedroom that doesn’t have a phone line, and the wireless router is attached to the cable modem. One computer (an older mac) is physically attached to the router, and the rest of the computers in the house use WiFi.
The DSL provider (Frontier) is telling me that the phone line for the DSL has to go directly to a computer, which doesn’t make sense to me. If that’s true, we’ll have to pay $70 to have a new phone line run upstairs, which I really don’t want to do.
So the question is, can I handle a DSL line the same way I do a cable line, hooking it into a router without having a CPU in the same place? Or was the Frontier rep on the phone right about needing to co-locate the incoming DSL with an actual CPU?
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