On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 09:21, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday October 9 2003 08:07 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > > It's a damn shame the only DSL connection I can get is SBC- > > > Yahoo. Yahoo sux, but they handle my mail and I'm stuck with > > > that. > > > > I had been meaning to ask you about that SBC DSL connection I > > inquired at SBC about DSL and when I said Linux ... Well I'm not > > gonna ask again. > > It was either them or cable. I get about 70 channel cable > service thru the RV park I'm in at no cost. I didn't wanna give > that up, plus Time Warner cable in this area has a lot of outages. > So there was a good potential of not havin TV or an Internet > connection for hours at a time. Cable was out for 6.5 hours just > last Friday, 11AM to 5:30PM. Also many short fallouts due to sun > spot activity this far south on the planet. > > OTOH, I believe I know what you're alluding to about SBC-Yahoo > DSL. Only windoze is supported, and you _must_ use their Winsux > installer to connect the first time to get a user name and > password. They won't give you one over the phone. So I had to clear > my first partition on hda and format it for fat32, install W98 and > SBC's dumbass installer. Connect and establish userID and password. > Then I booted Mandrake's 1st CD and reinstalled lilo, booted Linux > and installed rp-pppoe, did the setup and connected! No muss, no > fuss ;) Then I used diskdrake to erase Winsux and reformat hda1 > for ReiserFS ;) PITA, but I only had to do it that one time. > > The connection is good. It's 1.5Megabit and averages about a > steady 145 to 150Kbytes/sec thru Southwestern Bell. Never down. > Unfortunately mail is thru Yahoo's server, smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com > and it sux. I get some posts a day after they were sent. Some I > never see, only replies to them. SW Bell has a Usenet newsfeed, but > I also use (need) two paid services. Giganews and Athena, mostly > for binaries. Stuff ISP newsfeeds don't carry (or allow) ;> you're right it is a PITA Think I'll stick with speakeasy I'm getting consistent 65k downloads (if it's bits it sux iif its bytes it flys
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