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[Rancid-Milk-Man]

I'm having a bad few days. The memory in my computer has craped out and AT&T has decided to mess up my Internet when we cancelled our phone line. I thought I'd drop by and let everyone know what was up.

Hopefully I'll see everybody in a few days

[Fursphere]

AT&T has decided to mess up my Internet when we cancelled our phone line

Deja Vu? I did this same thing not too long ago, and it was a two week nitemare getting it straightened out. Ended up having to take a day off work to get an AT&T tech out to my house to fix the "box to my house" wiring to make the "dry loop" work correctly.

Good luck!

[Drommon]

So let me get this straight... we can cancel the phone line and still have AT&T dsl?

[Rancid-Milk-Man]

So let me get this straight... we can cancel the phone line and still have AT&T dsl?

From what the rep was saying is that it wouldn't be a problem, but In the back of my head I knew it couldn't be right. We wanted to cancel our phone because they were charging us so much. So we did that and they said our Internet should be fine...

[Fursphere]

Yes, its called a "dry loop". It may or may not be cheaper than what you currently have.

I *never* used my home phone, so I canceled it to get rid of all the associated phone taxes.

[Rancid-Milk-Man]

Yes, its called a "dry loop". It may or may not be cheaper than what you currently have.

I *never* used my home phone, so I canceled it to get rid of all the associated phone taxes.

We never use our phone either, but AT&T found a way to charge us like 25 dollars a months for the phone alone. When my friend only pays around 7 dollars for his line and he's with AT&T.

[Fursphere]

I think I was paying almost $15 in taxes alone.

[Drommon]

Yeah I have cellphone, landline, satellite and dsl all through AT&T. My bill from them is like $200+ a month. It just grinds my gears everytime I see the bill. I don't watch TV (wife does), don't use the land line and rarely use my cell.

The only thing I need is dsl

So getting rid of something will go a ways to saving some money. You get seperate tax on each those items as well. My wife is already looking into the dry loop thing. We have been wanting to dump that line ever since we moved here.

Thanks for the tip... Now I can justify getting internet service on the iphone

[Rancid-Milk-Man]

Yeah I have cellphone, landline, satellite and dsl all through AT&T. My bill from them is like $200+ a month. It just grinds my gears everytime I see the bill. I don't watch TV (wife does), don't use the land line and rarely use my cell.

The only thing I need is dsl

So getting rid of something will go a ways to saving some money. You get seperate tax on each those items as well. My wife is already looking into the dry loop thing. We have been wanting to dump that line ever since we moved here.

Thanks for the tip... Now I can justify getting internet service on the iphone

Yeah no problem it would save you a bunch of money and I have an iPhone. It's been good to me. I've used it to creat this thread and post lol. <3 iPhone

[Souca]

I've been doing the "dry loop" thing with various providers for years. While it seems cheaper, it isn't always. Be sure to check what they charge for various packages as I've noticed some companies like to advertise internet for $29.99, but only when you get their $50 phone service as well. On top of the pricing fun, they have also charged additional for the privilege of not having a phone on the phone line. I had to get a $12.99 phone line with no extras at one apartment to avoid a "phoneless charge" of $20 per month. Phone companies just don't get that for most intents and purposes the phone is dead. Instead of spending money upgrading their lines to provide better data services that customers want, they hold on to the monopoly mindset and try to shove their entitlement down peoples throats.

- Souca -