Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I have been asked to set up a computer for someone for Christmas. They gave me a Readers Digest ISP installation CD (rdplus.net) but can't be used because (a) it's out of date, with old numbers etc and (b) it's only for members.
I could go into the website and set it all up from there but it says it'll alter the settings on my computer automatically, so no go
Anyone know of a subscription-free ISP using a local rate UK dialup I can just sign up to from my computer then just simply set up the other PC to connect to. Someone (Tarquin?) did offer me such details some time ago but I seem to have lost them.
I originally went with freeserve as I could extract the phone numbers/login for setting up account from CD as I do NOT use Windoze (when I can). On dialling in, it went through set up account and then offered either to adjust computer for me (only knows Win so it would really mess up/fail with Linux ^_^) or stuff amendment details into a file/print it for later updation, at my leisure. DOing this, you set up acct from your machine and then just set up phone number, acct, passwd, pop server, smtp server and Robert's your father's brother (as my nephew/nieces would say to each other).
[I still use freeserve, but only for my inbound email addresses as they effectively give you an email domain - 97%+ of my spam gets sent to one user in particular at this email domain and so is easy to filter (on that criterion alone). I actually use another ISP for normal dial-in and sending email, and once a month dial-in and log-in into the freeserve acct to stop it being deactivated - it uses lo-call (local non-geographic) to dial-in and they get part of the phone call cost so it's a pay-as-you-go.]
