[JA] Re: Having dialup as a backup to DSL
- From: Geoffrey Wilson <glw4@xxxxxxx>
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:48:07 -0400
Your question is timely for me.
Your setup is somewhat different from mine.
You are using Juno 5 with a DSL service.
Both my wife and I have MegaMail accounts using Juno 4 (I reverted
from Juno 5 as I preferred the mailboxes to be held in separate
folders rather than compressed into one big one).
As a retiree I can get free Dial-Up Networking from Penn State, and
was using that until a few weeks ago. For my Juno e-mail I would use
their dial-in service However, if I happened to be connected to Penn
state Juno would use that connection rather than establish one
through its own providers. This had advantages if I wanted to
follow a URL posted in a Juno message.
I am now subscribed to a broadband service from my cable provider,
and have set my Juno 4 client to use that rather than dial-in. A
couple of days ago I did temporarily revert to the dial-in connection
when I wanted to send out a message quite independently of PSU and my
broadband ISP, to verify that a communication problem was not at my
end but at the end of the intended recipient. I did this by clicking
on to "Connection" on the Juno 4 toolbar, then "Connect to
Juno". This gives a choice between "Using a Modem" or "Over a
Network" I assume that a similar choice is availabe in juno 5. If
so, try it and see what happens.
At 01:07 PM 2008/08/30, George Lunt wrote:
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>From: Bob in Jersey <bob.in.jersey@xxxxxxxx>
>
>My father and I use a DSL provider, and also subscribe to Juno MegaMail
>so we can use the Juno 5.x client. (We use other webmail providers as
>well)
>
>We had a recent problem where we thought the DSL was down, but it turned
>out something had zapped our (external) DSL modem, and we needed to reset
>it to get it to work properly.
>
>We're back to normal now, but it got me thinking...since we have
>MegaMail, and since the DSL provider has said that there have been recent
>problems with their service, might it be a good idea to split off the
>phone line and also connect it to our (internal) dialup modem, so that
>should the DSL go down we can still at least access our Juno mail
>accounts? And, because we have to use DSL filters on the voice
>telephones in the house, would we need one of them as well for the dialup
>modem connection?
>
>Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>--
>BOB
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