Well, to illustrate how confused and ignorant I really am on this and what I'd like to have cleared up by some of our computer geniusses here, please, I will post a short excerpt of a MSN conversation between myself and Bilqis who very kindly tried her very best to educate me, but had to capitulate to the vastness of my ignorance:
bilqis says:
Your computer is directly connected to the internet at all times with DSL ... it doesn't 'disappear' from the web just because you aren't accessing it
bilqis says:
making it more vulnerable to those kinds of attacks and hacks
Guido says:
´but a DSL connection is still a dial-up ?! You mean without DSL you are only really online, visible, when you load something ?
bilqis says:
yes
bilqis says:
DSL Is not a dial-up... it is more like cable tv.. always present, always accessable
bilqis says:
if you are 'dialing' in via a modem, then you do not have DSL
Guido says:
But you have a DSL modem and I can be disconnected when my computer is on, so it is not like cable, I think, and yes I dial up very time I want to connect to the net and yes, it is DSL ! I am mightily confused now ...
bilqis says:
hmmm so am I LOL
bilqis says:
I do not dial-up. I am always connected
bilqis says:
my modem has been disabled
bilqis says:
We have ethernet cards in our computers that make it possible for us to connect with the ISPs computers and access the web through T-3 lines
bilqis says:
but we are always connected
bilqis says:
just as with the telephone, or cable tv
Guido says:
T-3 ?
Guido says:
I wonder if that is the American equivalent of ISDN, a digital phone connection ?
bilqis says:
I don't know the exact meaning of T-3 lines.. only that they are new cables/wires that have the capacity to allow vast quantities of differently sized info to travel at faster rates
bilqis says:
I don't know
Well, in case you have made it all the way to this point, then you know now how clueless I really am and what I want to know. SOS ! Please help !
Thanks !
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So long !
R³ - proud to be the official spokesman for the most noble Lady Bilqis, Desert Rose of Ironworks
Btw, the cow is queuing in the slaughterhouse right now !
[This message has been edited by Ramon de Ramon y Ramon (edited 06-25-2001).]