From: "Paul Ranson" 

There's always some sort of routing involved, it might be inside your PC.

A router is barely more expensive than a bare modem, you plug it into your
network and all your PCs get internet access with no further effort.

Paul

"Ellen K."  wrote in message
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> You have to have your own router to use DSL?
>
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:53:54 -0600, David N. Barnett 
> wrote in message :
>
> >On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:42:25 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote in
> >message :
> >
> >| Run a Ping x.x.x.x -l 2500 from your dsl router to the mail server and
see if you
> >| get any lost packets.
> >
> >What does that mean, and how would I do it?
> >
> >Hmm, I forgot about my router.  I didn't try bypassing the router and
> >connecting straight to the DSL modem.
> >
> >The problem has not recurred.
> >
> >--dnb
>

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