Re: [LUG] Connecting to the internet

[paul sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Welcome to the dclug. 

Before going too far down the line of dialup,  can you afford to go over to 
ADSL,  as that would probably save a lot of hassle.  

What part of devon / cornwall are you in,  perhaps there is someone local who 
can help.  I have an old dial up modem somewhere,  which works under Linux,  
if you do a search on the lug archive then there was a whole thread on 
getting mine to work, i posted a summary to the lug, to help other users.  I 
am in Paignton, (torbay). 

I can't remember off the top of my head how to set things, up, 

among other things (mainly comments) my /etc/resolv.conf file contains

nameserver ip address
nameserver ip address

for each of 2 addresses i was given by my isp,  I am however using dhcp hence 
the other notes in there, AFAIK thats all that was in that file when I used 
dial up,  which was at least 18 months ago,  

if you want a reliable connection I would go for ADSL but choose your 
supplier, as some have download limits,  I use zen.co.uk and they don't have 
limits. And are pretty fast.  Some of there engineer people also use Linux 
which is good to know should I ever need it,  which so far I have not really 
needed to contact support only over a few hosting issues. 

While download limits may be fine for some users, if you intend to download a 
set of debian iso's,  which would work out at at least 6 x 650/700mb images 
you soon go way over the limit,  and it could take months to download a whole 
distro. 

Sorry I can be much help from a modem / technical point of view. 


paul








On Monday 23 August 2004 10:56, aaronmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Posted by "Aaron Moore" <aaronmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Hi D&CLUG
>
> > By way of introduction, I am a big fan of linux but I do not
>
> really have a
>
> > head for computers so need a fair amount of help. I am new to
>
> the area and
>
> > need a decent connection to the internet.
> > Yesterday I connected to BTinternet with a dial up modem, but
>
> however hard I
>
> > try I can only use windows and all my work stuff is on the linux
>
> partition.
>
> > I am using Suse 9.1 with a 3Com U.S. Robotics 56K Voice
>
> Faxmoden.  I try
>
> > entering the phone No. password and email/username they gave but
>
> the moden
>
> > just dies.
> >
> > Can any one help? Is there a better alternative? Or have I
>
> posted this to the
>
> > wrong list?
> > Thanx in anticipation
> > Aaron
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