From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #763 Reply-To: diesel-benz-at-digest.net Sender: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Errors-To: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Precedence: bulk diesel-benz-digest Monday, May 13 2002 Volume 01 : Number 763 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: For people that travel and use portable computers for internet/email(OT content, but some may want to know) LONG My factory CD is at home, and I have a question right now Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:21:56 -0700 From: "Dan J." Subject: For people that travel and use portable computers for internet/email(OT content, but some may want to know) LONG Short version: Please do not go to Flying J truck stops and pay to use their new "Internet access modem stations" where they charge you 10cents/minute for really crappy phone lines. Please go to T/A to get your i.e.-mail with a meal. Long version: As you know, I am a long haul truck driver, and I keep in touch with the real world using a lap top computer. Many truck stops have made data phone jacks either available, or at least they don't freak out anymore when someone (correctly) takes their wall mount table phone from it's base and plugs in a phone line for their computer. The one common thing with all of these connections is the poor phone line quality, usually allowing me to connect at speeds around 19-32kbps. I have written, called, and e-mailed the corporate offices of the major truck stop chains, and they have all told me that it is a problem with their pay phone companies, they have poor installations, bad grounding, etc. The point is, they all blame someone that is not a part of the truck stop corporation. TON Services, the provider of phone and information services for Flying J truck stops (and I believe to be a subsidiary of Flying J), had told me that they would be installing modem connection stations that would provide high speed access for people wanting to connect to the Internet. There would be a "small charge", however, but it would be something that truck drivers and travelers would feel was a good bargain. I just finished using one of these so-called high speed access points, and I am happy to report that more and more, Flying J is pushing me and my money further away. I was able to connect at a blazing speed of 16.8, and it seemed slower than that in use. On top of that, I was being charged 10cents/minute for the privilege. If you travel and need Internet access while out and about in America, please try to go to T/A truck stops to check your e-mail with you meal. Their food may not be as good (a relative term when discussing truck stops), but they do not try to gouge you for something that they used to provide for free, and Flying J is now discouraging. Vote with your hard earned money in a (mostly) free economy. Diesel Dan, your disappointed big rig driver in Ogden UT, going to Fairfield, CA ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:32:16 -0700 From: "Cordova, Carlos (Alec)" Subject: My factory CD is at home, and I have a question right now Quick question for the groups. Rusty is shipping a new wiring harness for our 95 C280 directly to my mechanic. I do not yet have a factory manual CD for the W202. I'm not even sure if one is available. Might my W124 factory CD set describe the wiring harness for a 95 M104, or something reasonably close? If so, anybody know where in the labyrinthine menu I would find it? Thanks, Alec Cordova Taylor, Texas 95 C280 89 300CE ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #763 *********************************