On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 18:18, Richard A Sharpe wrote: > Does anyone know of any ISP's that have local NH numbers, who support > LINUX > users or have away to connect with a LINUX client, so far Earth Link has been > the only one I can find and I am using it right now.
I use http://access-4-free.com as my (backup) dialup ISP. I've never had any problem connecting from Mandrake using Kppp or wvdial, nor has my SmoothWall box had any trouble getting online. Their pricing policy is attractive, if a bit unusual - free for up to 10 hours in one month, each hour from #11 to #20 is $1, all hours above 20 in that same month are free; for this reason, they make a very inexpensive backup solution. They provide a wide array of access numbers in NH, and have other plans that are more suitable to dialup-only users, such as an unlimited, "accelerated" (IOW, transparently proxied) account with 5 email addys for $9.95/month. One nice touch is that their POP server can be polled from outside their network; they also provide webmail access. The only glitch I've ever had with them is that on occasion their DHCP server would pass along to connecting clients two DNS server numbers (as it should), but the primary one would be down, leading to timeouts and thus slowing the perceived speed of the connection; I worked around this problem by hard-coding two of their working DNS server addresses into /etc/resolv.conf, and then disabling the auto-updating of that file by pppd by removing the line "usepeerdns" from /etc/ppp/options. -- Bill Mullen RLU# 270075 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
