DSL question

[jeenyes]

My girlfriend just received her dsl package to install and she asked me a question that I could not answer since I am to poor to have dsl. She asked me since the computer is always connected to the internet, can she get on her account at work. IF, it is always connected, I would think she would still have to log on and off, on her isp. Am I right or is my thinking off track? Thanks in advance.

[Nighthawk]

Log onto her account at work?

DSL accounts are specific to the modem and phone number. She could check her email from work and some companies offer dial-up service for free/low charge for their customers, so she could dial-up and go through her ISP, I guess.

if she has a web or FTP server at home, she could access that from work.

[jeenyes]

The dsl is for her home pc. I guess what I'm asking is, is she always logged on to her ISP, or can she log off and get on to her account at work or from another PC?

[MrEd]

I use Yahoo to check my home email from work.
It gives you the option if you have an account with them. Excite and hotmail do the same.

-MrEd
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[daverme]

I suppose this is as much a question as it is a response.

I just installed a cable modem so I am "always on" to the Internet. Now, I do not have to access an ISP in order to be on the Net; it's just there. I have an AOL account and I can still access AOL if I want to, using their TCP/IP interface (I can also dial them if I choose to). I can bring up either Netscape or I.E. and surf the Web using either browser. I tele-commute and I can also access my work site, and all its applocations, using VPN.

Now my question is, does DSL work the same way?

[emcron]

"DSL accounts are specific to the modem and phone number"

Maybe its different in your area but I can sign in with my account at work and with the account from work at my house. Jeenyes,
this is not like AOHELL where everything comes in a neat little package. If all she wants to do is check her email, them most likely the ISP that she uses will have some kind of web based access to her account.

[This message has been edited by emcron (edited 02-25-2001).]

[BIGO]

emcron is correct as far as I know. I have dsl, and the connection to the dsl line is always "on" but I am still set up to sign on and off using "my connection" (or whatever she may have named hers). Leaving the connection always on seems a little scarey to me unless you have a great firewall.

[jeenyes]

She has aol as her account, but even though she will always be connected to the net, this does not mean that she is connected to aol does it? I mean she can sign off aol and sign on aol at her work can't she?

[CMonster]

I just got DSL and I have a static IP address - that means my computer is connected to the network of my ISP just as if it was a node on a LAN, so there is no log on or log off, and through my ISP I have Internet access.

I can check my mail from anywhere with Internet access but connections at another location will not be through my ISP or at the speed of my DSL; that is, not my line speed or DSL bandwidth which is particular to my home telephone line. Instead I would be subject to whatever speed was available at the locality, through their ISP.

I do have a dialup account as well with my DSL - costs $5 a month extra. Using that dialup I can use my ISP from almost anywhere with a phone where there is a local access number.

I can also call my home computer from a another computer and use the DSL connection through my ISP, but the speed of the remote connection would be limited to the connection I can negotiate with modems over regular telephone lines, which theoretically should be pretty good because it is a like a dedicated connection (provided my son is not sucking down all the DSL bandwidth).

[gyoung]

She has aol as her account, but even though she will always be connected to the net, this does not mean that she is connected to aol does it? I mean she can sign off aol and sign on aol at her work can't she?


I have DSL also. So I'll attempt to answer your question. To access her AOL info she can log on from anywhere (I think). The DSL is a different story. Who is her ISP (the supplier of the DSL connection)? If she wants to access her email from this ISP, you would only have to configure your email (you could use Hotmail, Yahoo, Excite, or any number of free email services on the web) to access that ISP. You could also configure Outlook Express or Eudora at her work to access that email. That's really the only thing that you need to access from your ISP.

To configure your email you would have to set up the POP account for the email client. The POP address is usually "mail.isp.com" where "isp" is the name of the internet service provider. For instance mine is mail.telocity.com. You would then supply a username and password that you have setup with the ISP to access your email.

Hope that helps.



[This message has been edited by gyoung (edited 02-26-2001).]