On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 04:22:45PM +0200, Wilko Fokken wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 07:50:33PM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > > > I live in a very remote rural area, so dialup is my only option. > > Someone else suggested wvdial, which works and is good, but I prefer > > to use pppconfig to create the connection, pon/poff to start/end it, > > and pppstatus so I can see how many curse words and which ones are > > appropriate when waiting for things to download. > > > > Indulekha > > Moin, > > I am living the same way in rural Germany. > > With Lenny, using 'pppconfig', I am having no problems with dialup > connections, except: > > After running 'pppconfig' to install a new dialup connection to a > provider, I need to enter the directory > > /etc/ppp/peers/ > > and have to change the group of my new dialup entries to 'dip': > > chown root:dip <provider> >
I'd forgotten, but that was necessary here as well. > -------------------------------- > > > Unfortunately, I can't find a provider anymore, who provides a constant > dialup connection: They all switch their connection parameters regularly, > so that a cheap dialup connection suddenly turns into a altered connection > with costs up to 15 cents/min. > > Therefore I wrote some shell scripts in order to protect myself from > monetary hassle relying on data given under > > www.teltarif.de > > > As my shell scripts qualify as "private-alpha", I put just a few lines > here to give an overview of actual cheap German dialup connections: > > ############################################################################# > #! /bin/sh > > # Get an overview of cheap dialup connections in Germany from www.teltarif.de > # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > # (Note: requires an already working internet access) > > # (dialup connection online?) > if [ -f /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then > wget -q -O - www.teltarif.de/db/res-inet.html?zs=jetzt | \ > html2text -nobs | tee /tmp/teltarif-all.txt > > cat /tmp/teltarif.txt | cut -d\ -f2- > /tmp/teltarif.cut > > recode lat1..UTF-8 /tmp/tel* > > clear > head -n 100 /tmp/teltarif-all.txt | tail -n 36; echo > ls -l /tmp/teltarif-all.txt > > else > echo > echo "No dialup connection online" > echo > fi > ############################################################################# > > > > Good Lucks, Germans! > > (or you pays your bucks, Hermann) > > What a hassle! I've also had very little luck finding a reasonable provider here in Tennessee. They all cut you off after four hours max, sometimes every ten minutes at peak use times. First I tried earthlink, but they cut you off every single time you download more than ~1.5MB. Then copper, but they informed me there is a 300 hour maximum use per month (on "unlimited" accounts). Currently I'm using earth-comm, at least I can download things and no usage limits, plus it's dirt cheap. But having to reconnect frequently is a drag. Some days I get the "full four hours" before they cut me off, some days they do it every 10-15 minutes. The TOS warn that if you use a script to avoid the cutoff your service will be terminated. It's the only real drawback to living here. -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120509163956.GA15393@radhesyama