Verizon DSL Works With Windows 98
By Rob Safuto on Oct 21, 2007 in Customer Service | Tags: dsl , verizon , windows 98
A support supervisor at Verizon told my Mom that Verizon DSL would not work with Windows 98. I said different. I was finally able to make it to my Mom’s house to work on it yesterday. Within 45 minutes I had her on the net. I didn’t have to do anything except use the supplied modem and call Verizon to get a manually issued username and password. I have no idea what these other people (including the tech who came out and declared her modem defective) were thinking.
Once connected I did a connection speed test and was shocked to see that she only could get about 200kps on downloads. I believe that her discounted package is supposed to provide up to 384 kps. That’s a battle to fight on another day. In contrast my Time Warner Cable internet connection gets 6MB down and 489kps going up.
junkbox | Nov 25, 2007 | Reply
that’ll be fun, for an hour tops.
a 10yr old operating system with no update support, no patches, and an entirely network unfriendly operating system…
It would be fun to set up a freshy 98 install completely clean and see how long it takes before the system is crippled.
hour tops.
-jb
Rob Safuto | Nov 25, 2007 | Reply
The computer is still working very well. Office apps are running. The browser works fine.