Real Time rents the physical line from Qwaste between the user and Real Time. Qwaste OWNS the line and equipment and has the final say over what goes over those lines.If they say the lines cant be used for DSL, the user or ISP has no say. Its a crock of shit that they are changing their story like this but it doesnt surprise me. Regardless of the fact that Qwaste bought USWaste, its still USWaste running things (the same mgmt) and they have been worthless for service--especially to home users. I've fought with them time and time again. Im moving down the hall in my apt here this weekend and they will most likely have my DSL down for a month even though I'm not even leaving my building. 10 mins from a tech to move a few wires in my apt basement and it would be done. Im gonna get screwed. They are just shit for customer service. What the twin cities needs is a class-action lawsuit against them to wake them up. Anyone gets one going and I'm in!! Good luck. At 05:44 PM 12/1/00 -0600, you wrote: >Been running into this lately, so I thought I would ask the collective knowledge >of the LUG this question: > >How do you explain to people the difference between a Telco and an ISP? > >The people are totally newbies and very, very non-techincal. > >The situation I am in is a client lost their DSL service from USWest. After days >of calling and hours on the phone with Qwest I was told that they are beyond the >19,000 foot mark. > >Qwest says they should have never gotten DSL in the first place. Qwest will not, >no matter what put DSL down that circuit. Qwest has not explaination on how they >got DSL in the first place. > >Anyways, this client is very upset. They keep calling us and asking us to "fix >the problem". > >I have tried (very patiently) to explain Real Time is an ISP, we provide >Internet access. Qwest is a telco, they provide the physical connectivity. > >It just doesn't sink in. > >I have tried this analogy. Real Time is an automotive dealer, we sell cars. >Qwest is like MNDOT, they build roads. > >You (the client) have bought a speedy but very safe car (linux). It comes with >an airbag (ipchains) for safety, etc.. You got the car, but there is no roads to >drive on. > >It didn't sink in. > >So, how can you explain to the client that when the physical link is down, no >matter how bad you want to fix it from them, Qwest must be involved and they >must do the fix? > > > >-- >Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (612)943-8700 >http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (612)943-8500 >Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at lists.real-time.com >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >