PPP providors

[Peter C. Lai]

I need a temporary 56K providor until I get broadband installed at a new
location. Do any of the commercially advertised ones (netscape, netzero,
peoplepc, earthlink) support using regular PPP, or am I forced to use their
dialer in win32? This is obviously important in determining if such a
providor can be used in freebsd.
TIA
pete

--
Peter C. Lai
University of Connecticut
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
SenseLab | Research Assistant
[url]http://cowbert.2y.net/[/url]

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Monday 21 February 2005 01:28 pm, Peter C. Lai wrote:

> I need a temporary 56K providor until I get broadband installed at a
> new location. Do any of the commercially advertised ones (netscape,
> netzero, peoplepc, earthlink) support using regular PPP, or am I
> forced to use their dialer in win32? This is obviously important in
> determining if such a providor can be used in freebsd.
> TIA
> pete

Been last summer I was still using ppp dialers. Earthlink was no
problem, always worked well. Netzero was worthless. Don't know about
any other national providers.

[Mike Hauber]

On Monday 21 February 2005 04:28 pm, Peter C. Lai wrote:

> I need a temporary 56K providor until I get broadband installed
> at a new location. Do any of the commercially advertised ones
> (netscape, netzero, peoplepc, earthlink) support using regular
> PPP, or am I forced to use their dialer in win32? This is
> obviously important in determining if such a providor can be
> used in freebsd.
> TIA
> pete

A few months ago, I had my Father set up on Earthlink. I've heard
tell (rumor probably) that they plan on switching to something
like a software setup like aol. I've tried netzero and peoplepc,
and couldn't get anywhere with them. I don't know about
netscape. Your best bet _may_ be to go through a local dialup
service (if you can find one, these days).

Oh yeah... I don't know if AT&T is an option where you are, but
they are straight forward and don't require any junk software for
connection.

HTH

Mike

[Peter C. Lai]

I signed up for netscape, becauase hey, it's 1 month free trial anyway. So
technically, I'm an AOL luser now *hangs head in shame* :-/ (after logging
into the POP, you end up on AOL). The good thing is, I can use the vanilla
windows DUN with MS CHAP authentication, so after I get freebsd setup, I'm
gonna try configuring ppp. Currently POP login name obfuscation is:
"username@netscape.aol.com" where username is the one you are given when
you setup the account (typically nsJohnDoe). The password is not obfuscated.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:47:41AM -0500, Mike Hauber wrote:

> On Monday 21 February 2005 04:28 pm, Peter C. Lai wrote:

> > I need a temporary 56K providor until I get broadband installed
> > at a new location. Do any of the commercially advertised ones
> > (netscape, netzero, peoplepc, earthlink) support using regular
> > PPP, or am I forced to use their dialer in win32? This is
> > obviously important in determining if such a providor can be
> > used in freebsd.
> > TIA
> > pete

>
> A few months ago, I had my Father set up on Earthlink. I've heard
> tell (rumor probably) that they plan on switching to something
> like a software setup like aol. I've tried netzero and peoplepc,
> and couldn't get anywhere with them. I don't know about
> netscape. Your best bet _may_ be to go through a local dialup
> service (if you can find one, these days).
>
> Oh yeah... I don't know if AT&T is an option where you are, but
> they are straight forward and don't require any junk software for
> connection.
>
> HTH
>
> Mike

--
Peter C. Lai
University of Connecticut
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
SenseLab | Research Assistant
[url]http://cowbert.2y.net/[/url]

[Bob Johnson]

Peter C. Lai wrote:

>I signed up for netscape, becauase hey, it's 1 month free trial anyway. So
>technically, I'm an AOL luser now *hangs head in shame* :-/ (after

logging

>into the POP, you end up on AOL). The good thing is, I can use the

vanilla

>windows DUN with MS CHAP authentication, so after I get freebsd setup, I'm
>gonna try configuring ppp. Currently POP login name obfuscation is:
>"username@netscape.aol.com" where username is the one you are given when
>you setup the account (typically nsJohnDoe). The password is not

obfuscated.

>

I'm jumping in a bit late, but I was looking for a cheap/free dialup service
last year and it looked like [url]http://www.copper.net[/url] was a good candidate.
I ended up using a public port at a library, so I don't have actual
experience
with them.

- Bob