Wee Bit Tall threw some tea leaves on the floor
and this is what they wrote:

Hey it's not Windows!

Mandrake install has always been easy, but you know the Wintrolls, they
buy their OS pre-installed and anything else is too hard for them.

Good external modems are hard to find these days. I'd recommend buying
an older quality external modem second hand, make sure it has the
original manual with the command set etc. If it says "Works with
Windows" keep looking!

Hayes, Motorolla, lots of great modems around secondhand.



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Ya'el S. wrote:

I enjoy the Internet with a dialup.

I just don't get it confused with my video and audio systems.

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I run the Internet via a green
garden hose.

Wide bandwidth, but I have to stay
away from electricity...

Ya'el S. wrote:

Where do you live? The next step up from dialup where I'm at is ISDN and thats
about 4x the cost of dialup for not much more than 2x the speed. The High Speed
Internet hasn't showed up yet in the US (Tennessee), just the High Priced Internet.

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I am lucky enough to have good cable access. It's *cheaper* than dial up,
since I don't actually have a phone line to subsidise the cost of
dialup. 1-2Mbit/s downloads, although uploads are capped at 256Kbits, I
can live with that...

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Ya'el S. wrote:

Best modem I have is an internal ISA one which sits in my Smoothwall box.

The winmodem in my Dell laptop isn't too bad either, even under Linux.

I don't have the option. Broadband won't reach here till the next
millennium, if ever.

I still enjoy the internet, even on a lowly 56k dialup.

Given the choice of the views or broadband, I know which one I'd pick.
YMMV...

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Palladium is Microsoft's suicide note.

jbailo wrote:

Nope. My Frontier DSL connection is 1mbps.

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On 2003-10-31, gazing longingly at the horizon,
jbailo <jabailo@earthlink.net>
felt a deep, passionate desire to let the following be known:
I dunno what part of cyberspace you live in, but I'm getting an 8 mbit
ADSL in a few weeks. That's downstream, of course, upstream is only 1
mbit. My current connection is 2.4 mbit down and 512 kbit up.

And, yes, I realise this is only "best-case" values, but I noticed a
difference when going from 512/64 kbit to 2.4 mbit/512 kbit.

Since we don't have flat fee phone rates (not even local calls) here,
a monthly flat fee ADSL is a heck of alot cheaper than paying by the
minute for us internet addicts.

The best rating here is 10M "nominative" from a company that installs
TP jacks. No DSL, just plain ethernet in your wall.

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Joseph wrote:

have the latest and greatest. Now, I know better. Just wait a bit and
things get cheap real fast.

I waited before I bought a CD writer. Instead of paying $500, I only
paid $50. I will get a DVD writer when they hit $50.

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Michael> Still have my Hayes 2400 external modem. Paid over $600
MICHAEL> FOR IT BACK IN 1984.

Does it use an acoustic coupler?


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You smartass!



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Joseph wrote:

I just hit the reply button, its automatic; this happens when you
cross-post to two NG's.

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Wee Bit Tall wrote:

Not sure where you're located, but since you're posting through Earthlink
I'll assume you're in the U.S. Anyway, if you happen to have an Office Max
nearby, they have an Best Data 56K V92 external modem on sale for $29.99
after a $10 rebate. Saturday is the last day of the sale.

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Johan Lindquist wrote:



Bastard.




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"Joseph" <1on1(removethis)@email.com> wrote in message
newsan.2003.10.30.21.29.01.423757@email.com...
: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:47:12 +0000, Wee Bit Tall wrote:
:
: > I would like to
: > get a serial modem. Can any one name one to get?
:
: Almost any -EXTERNAL- modem should work.
: Don't get any WinModems....
:
: --
: Joseph
:
: Linux & Alzheimers is a tough duo.
: Sometimes I wonder if it's more than a joke.

i heard from some to read the fine print. Some call them modems, and they
find out the hard way that they are not hardware modems.

"Ed Cogburn" <EdCogburn@HotPop.com> wrote in message
news:bnt5ag$13nh7g$1@ID-49761.news.uni-berlin.de...
: Ya'el S. wrote:
: > Joseph <1on1(removethis)@email.com> wrote in message
: > news:<pan.2003.10.30.21.29.01.423757@email.com>...
: >
: >> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:47:12 +0000, Wee Bit Tall wrote:
:
:
:
: Where do you live? The next step up from dialup where I'm at is ISDN and
thats
: about 4x the cost of dialup for not much more than 2x the speed. The High
Speed
: Internet hasn't showed up yet in the US (Tennessee), just the High Priced
Internet.
:

In my area we have cable but they want $55.00 a month, and that is too steep
for me. DSL is out of reach. The cable is so high because we don't have a
competitor here.

"Tony Sivori" <TonySivoriM$WORMS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
newsan.2003.11.01.02.26.11.351021@yahoo.com...
: Wee Bit Tall wrote:
:
: > I don't have a modem for it right now. I would like to get a serial
: > modem. Can any one name one to get?
:
: Not sure where you're located, but since you're posting through Earthlink
: I'll assume you're in the U.S. Anyway, if you happen to have an Office Max
: nearby, they have an Best Data 56K V92 external modem on sale for $29.99
: after a $10 rebate. Saturday is the last day of the sale.
:
: --
: Tony Sivori
:

I looked, and we didn't

Wee Bit Tall wrote:

Bingo, my problem too, my cable company has no competitor in this area so it is
not an option due to its high price.

Ed Cogburn wrote:

Also, there are several resellers of DSL. So, my cable connection with
no restrictions is $24.95 CDN a month or a bit less than $20 US. And I
have been a cable subscriber for 7 years now. I quickly forget how good
we have it here. Dial-up has virtually disappeared. I don't know anyone
that still uses dial-up.

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On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 05:14:58 GMT, "Wee Bit Tall" <just@the.zoo> wrote:


Harv