OK.
So.
I have Magma as my DSL internet provider.
I have Rogers as my home phone provider.
I want the two to play nice together.
I call Magma, they say I need a circuit number.
I call Rogers, they say they don’t provider circuit numbers. But I should request a “dry loop dsl connection” from Magma.
I tell Magma this, they say “What? Try again.”
I call Rogers, apparently they have two home phone services, digital and analogue. I have the digital, therefore, no circuit number.
I call Magma, tell them this, they say they don’t support Rogers digital service then.
I call Rogers, get them to change the account to analogue(because I really care about this sort of thing) and that will happen Friday.
So, in general, one more week without internet.
Gah!
Two failings(possibly my own, I never rule that out):
1. Magma doesn’t mention the fact they don’t support a Digital Rogers
2. Rogers doesn’t mention that they have an analogue account
Both suck.
Gonna go back to tin cans and string.
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I’ve been contemplating dropping local phone service and going with VoIP. It’s not like I use the phone much anyway. But I’m on DSL, so I have to wonder, then, who’s in charge of the wire that brings me DSL? Because Magma doesn’t mess around with wires.
Apparently it’s possible. I’m just not sure the $10 or so a month is worth the hassle.
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Step 1: Get phone service. Honest to Goodness, Plain-Old-Telephone-System phone service. Not VOIP, Not CableFone, an honest to goodness copper loop that plugs into an honest to goodness phone which has an honest to goodness RJ-11 end. If you can plug Grandma’s rotary phone, and you can get dial tone, you’re golden.
Step 2: Contact the DSL provider of choice. Hell, *I* could sell you DSL service from over here; getting you the equipment would be a bit of a bitch.
Step 3: There are exactly four things that the DSL provider of choice will need to know. 1: Your phone number from step 1. 2: Your ‘service address’ with your phone provider; generally, this is your billing address. 3: Your phone provider. 4: How you’re going to pay them.
Step 4: They will make the DSL bit happen in about a week or so.
Step 5: Plug in your line filters, plug in your DSL modem, plug in your gateway (for the love of all that is indecent and unholy, get a bridged modem and use the gateway of your choice to do the PPPoE stuff) and configure as required.
Step 6: Bask in the glow of high-speed Internet.
Step 7: Don’t bother with VoIP. It’s useless, due to one overwhelming fact: Your VoIP connection is at the mercy of the crappiest link between your modem and the VoIP provider’s infrastructure.
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Love — Centurion, Mightiest of the Mighty, now with all required ‘t’s. Did ye get me email about going to Anime North?
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Oh, and Step 1 should say ‘if you can plug Grandma’s rotary phone *into the wall* and get dial-tone’. Not plug it into some wacky VoIP gateway thingamajiggy.
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Spring has sprung, so my ‘nesting’ instinct has kicked in.
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Get it? Nesting?
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God, I slay me.
Back to web app coding I go. Heigh-ho.
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That’s no fun. I wanted to run my own asterisk server. 😛
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The whole point of me getting Rogers was to avoid Bell’s asinine “Let us flip a switch for $90” setup fee.
That pissed me off, always has, always will.
So I said, fuck that! and went with Rogers.
If only I had known…actually, if I had known, I would have asked for the analogue service in the first place, and all would have been well.
And no, didn’t get the email about anime north. Let me review…
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Who knew that getting Rogers’ phone service would make life difficult? Actually… *I* did! I’m also one of those people who likes to say “I told you so.”
I told you so.
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You told me nothing!
Nothing is what you told me!
Nothing!
Bell equally sucks.