OT: dialup

OT: dialup

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi all.

Do any of you know of good dialup providers that are nationwide and can be 
used without proprietary software?
I have a blind friend in South Carolina who lives in a dead spot between 
DSL providers so she has to use dialup. she has been using basicisp but 
the local access number doesn't connect reliably for her; she ends up 
using a number that is considered long distance which works fine but gets 
her in trouble with the phone company for apparently misusing her 
unlimited long distance. Nobody seems to know why the local access number 
won't allow her to connect or stay connected; basicisp has tried to blame 
her Mac, her modem, a routing problem, etc. but it seems strange that she 
can conncect fine to the long distance number and not the local access 
one. I'm desperate to help her find a dialup service she can use. Any 
suggestions? While she is using Macosx instead of linux, she has some of 
the same issues as linux users in that she can't use anything that 
requires downloaded Windows software.




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Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

RE: dialup

[Tom Moore]

I don't know what the pricing on this would be, but the last time I had to
use dial-up service I went with Earthlink.
There may be other options out there now though.

Tom
 

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Subject: OT: dialup


Hi all.

Do any of you know of good dialup providers that are nationwide and can be
used without proprietary software?
I have a blind friend in South Carolina who lives in a dead spot between DSL
providers so she has to use dialup. she has been using basicisp but the
local access number doesn't connect reliably for her; she ends up using a
number that is considered long distance which works fine but gets her in
trouble with the phone company for apparently misusing her unlimited long
distance. Nobody seems to know why the local access number won't allow her
to connect or stay connected; basicisp has tried to blame her Mac, her
modem, a routing problem, etc. but it seems strange that she can conncect
fine to the long distance number and not the local access one. I'm desperate
to help her find a dialup service she can use. Any suggestions? While she is
using Macosx instead of linux, she has some of the same issues as linux
users in that she can't use anything that requires downloaded Windows
software.




--
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

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Re: dialup

[Gregory Nowak]

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Current pricing is $21.95 for unlimited dial-up, that's per month of
course.

Greg


On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:12:57PM -0400, Tom Moore wrote:
> I don't know what the pricing on this would be, but the last time I had to
> use dial-up service I went with Earthlink.
> There may be other options out there now though.
> 
> Tom
>  
> 


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Re: OT: dialup

[Tony Baechler]

I don't know if they're still around, but try Hyper Connections or 
something like that.  http://hypercon.net/  It's been years since I 
looked at them, but they were $10 per month and I got good speed in my 
tests.  Of course they all want to push their software on you, but you 
don't have to use it.