RB Font
@sbcglobal.net
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Re: using AT&T DSL with Macintosh computers...
GreyBeard, Mr. Fixit, and Froh - the information that "Safari is incompatible with AT&T DSL" came from a 'Level 2' technician at AT&T. Once I stopped using Safari, I have never had a recurrence of the periodic outages.
I realize that it requires a workaround to configure the modem using the Safari browser, but that's not the only issue according to the AT&T rep. |
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MrFixitSC
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Moncks Corner, SC
1 edit | Hmmm, thanks for the info, I'd never heard that... |
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ctgreybeard
Old dogs can learn new tricks
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BUNK
Safari is the most compatible browser against the W3C tests. It's a browser that implements the HTTP protocol, there is NOTHING that could possibly be "incompatible" with any DSL.
Millions of users, myself among them, have used Safari on both Apple and Windows machines without incident on AT&T DSL as well as other ISPs.
You are being misled by the ignorant. Believe what you will but if AT&T DSL can be brought to its knees by a mere browser, a very common and popular one at that, then AT&T has serious problems.
I am not doubting that you experience problems when you use Safari, what I am saying is that the trigger may be Safari but the underlying problem isn't in Safari, it is somewhere else in your configuration. For the life of me I can't imagine where or what it might be though. Which, I guess, makes me as ignorant as they. Ignorance is curable, though.
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NormanS
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·Pacific Bell - SBC
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Safarin and the AT&T web portal page. | 
Safari and the SS4100 setup page. |
I included SeaMonkey to demonstrate that the modem will work with a browser other than Safari. I generally use Opera, though. The Yahoo! web site (generic, as well as co-branded AT&T), hates Opera. Rather, Opera hates Yahoo!. Yahoo! wants to track every click you make, every site you jump to from theirs. They make it as difficult as possible to "anonymize" your web experience with them.
Yahoo! is more evil than Google!
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Norman
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