First PC in MO, about 2003, only "dial-up" service available (prior, NO SERVICE available, but public outcry finally convinced local 'phone co. to provide dial-up. Damnably slow, any incoming email message containing a large data amount (picture), caused a "lock-up" of download, the pic often never materializing. To do necessary internet "chores", we drove the 23 miles to town where public usage was available.
But now, to the current "imponderable": I have a two-gang wall plate with typical telephone jacks, two of them, one being used for our fax machine (which has a telephone handset on it, the other jack being connected to a modem which displays colored lights indicating "power, wireless, dsl, and internet". My question specifically is, are both these jacks connected in common to a single "land-line", over which the telephone service as well as PC service are carried simultaneously?
Other than "need to know", my wife's sister in Indiana has cable internet service. They experience outages of service fairly often. After 18 months here in AZ, on "DSL", the origin of which I am clueless, we have experienced NO outages of service, though the "Dish-TV" is out often enough to make up for it! jocular