ATT wireless a no-go

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/22/07, Stuart Biggerstaff <biggers at lindahall.org> wrote:
> Actually, with AT&T it CAN be both.  If you do DSL with them you have
> the choice of buying a "modem" or a "router"--actually both similar
> routers with the DSL modem built in.  The one has a single LAN port, the
> other one has four plus wireless.

I don't see how that's both unless it switches on the fly between
getting its upstream service from some AT&T maintained wireless radio,
or the landline.  Everything that I've read about AT&T's service
offerings are either/or, never both DSL & wifi.  Just because they're
giving you a router that happens to act as a wifi access point doesn't
mean that AT&T is giving you wifi.  At least not any more than any
other person is getting wifi who happens to install a WAP in their
home, which is tied to their landline.