On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:07:19PM -0500, Taavi Burns wrote:

I'm in the same boat as you. I have a friend who works the helpdesk for Telus in Alberta, and they do not offer such a service there.

It's technically feasible (no reason you can't run DSL on "dry copper"), they just "don't do it." I suspect Bell/other DSL providers are the same.

(now you see, the funny part is that my phone line isn't "dry"...it actually HAS a dialtone...it just won't let you dial anyone but Bell's sales department.)

I should probably go ask them or something.

I would think the line will let you call *whatever it is to activate a line, AND 911. I think the 911 access was a reason they started leaving a dial tone on unused lines. The simpler activation method is probably another reason. Now can users of Sprint phone lines get DSL yet? Lennart Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml