Anne, Margot,
Humble apologies! - yes, I forgot to say the ISPs I was referring to were (mostly) 'pay-as-you-go'.... I haven't signed up with a new ISP for some time. When I was doing that fairly frequently, extracting any setting up details from them was like getting blood from a stone - hence the Winblows work-around. It's nice they're becoming more Linux-friendly. I haven't had any problem so far with Tiscali P-A-Y-G time-outs - managed to download great masses of Mandrake Updates, lasting hours. (This was pre-SmartSurf) Hope you get your problems sorted soon, Margot cheers, Doug On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 19:15, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 31 Jan 2003 7:02 pm, Douglas B. wrote: > > Margot, > > > > Most of the UK dial-up ISPs can be set up for Linux without too much > > difficulty - I would choose the one that offers the best deal, ignoring > > In your position I would consider using Tiscali on an Anytime contract, which > IIRC is £15/month, and then one of the pay as you go isps for a fall-back > account, just for those very rare occasions when something goes wrong. > Anytime is just that no other cost for time or phone calls, but they tend to > cut you off after about 2 hours, so long downloads are very difficult. > > As far as setting up goes, you can sign up from any browser you have, on any > os, just from their website. When you've signed up and got your account > initiated they send you a welcome letter and another with all the details you > need to set up access from any browser. It is absolutely complete. HTH > > Anne -- Douglas B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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