Info request for my Mom's "new" computer...

[Ronald K. Wechter]

Here's What we use for the Depew Fire Department:

http://corp.ixpres.com/

$8.49 per month, 3 months FREE!
Thank you for your interest in our Dial-Up Special. Service includes:
  Unlimited National Toll Free Access 
  Minimum of 5 Email Accounts 
  Worldwide Webmail - Internet Email 
  24/7 Toll Free Technical Assistance 
  800 Service for when you travel 

Find phone numbers for her area at http://support.ixpres.com/dialupnumbers/ 

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Robert Dege
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 1:37 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Info request for my Mom's "new" computer...


Here's a rule of thumb.  If you can connect to an ISP using Dial-Up
Networking (or equivalent) through Win9x/Ce/Me/NT/2k/XP/wtf/etc., then it
will "most likely" work in linux.

DuN connectivity shows a user 2 things:

1) you don't need any ISP special software to connect to the internet
through your ISP (ie AOL).  You can use DuN to make an internet connection
with your ISP, and use IE/Mozilla web tools without requiring the ISP
client software to be loaded (ie Earthlink).

2) your ISP uses a standard connection scheme such as PPP, or the more
archaic SLIP.

-Rob


> I use www.buffnet.net and I know they have access numbers for Niagara
> County.  They don't actively support Linux, but have some tech info for
> it on their website.  Some of their techs use Linux themselves.
>
> Joe
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>
> > If Buffalo is not a long distance call for her, our Dial up service is
> > $16.95 per month and almost all our users are Linux users! Call
> > 553-8525 if your interested. Thanks
> >
> > peter wrote:
> >
> >> Greg Neumann wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well, so it's *not* new... it's faster than mine! ;-)
> >>> I'm setting her up w/ KDE on Slack 9.1, making it as user friendly
> >>> as Win98 for email and web browsing.  What I need to know is what
> >>> local ISP's using a *GASP!* 56k modem, are Linux friendly?  I'll set
> >>> up the ppp scripts, etc. so she can just "click and log on", I just
> >>> want a good, Linux friendly ISP for her.  She lives in Niagara
> >>> County, I live in Holland, so I'd rather not have to buzz back and
> >>> forth every other day for admin tasks. ;-)
> >>> Thanks for the help, guys!
> >>> -Greg