Thanks Tarquin. Now I've seen the 'sonow' name I remember when you sent it to me some time ago. I'll keep a printout this time!
Have set up the computer with MSNFreeweb for now, it will do for a while. The setup was SO easy I couldn't believe it - ran the downloaded setup.exe file and 20 second slater it was configured and on the BT Internet home page, it was so fast and trouble free I couldn't believe it (says he, ever the pessimist when it comes to PCs!) Unfortunately, I tried the same thing with another "free" ISP and instead of saving the downloaded file I accidentally ran the setup file and bang went my Tesco.net connection for a couple of days until I sorted it out and restored the settings tonight (that'll teach me!) (of course what I was trying to do was download the setup files onto a floppy disk on my PC then move the disk to setup the other PC, silly me!) -- Dilwyn Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: Tarquin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:22 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] isp > > > Dilwyn Jones wrote: > [snip] > > 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. > Sorry to be late in replying (just ordered a foldover for my MinisQ60), the > ISP is called Sonow sign up online at http://signup.sonow4u.co.uk .My > mother has been using them for years and never had a single SPAM. > > Telephone number = 0845 6652218 > DNS servers = 212.85.249.130 & 212.1.130.32 but use ORSC instead (see below) > SMTP mail server = mail.sonow4u.co.uk > POP3 mail server = mail.sonow.com > > Could Jonathan Dent TCP/IP stack's DNS Resolver be configured to point at > the Open Root Server Confederation DNS servers rather than the ICANN legacy > servers. This would mean instead of seeing just the usual names you could > see other TLDs (Top Level Domains) like http://www.bbc.news .Would people > be interested in a free .ql domain or would they prefer ql.sinclair. > For more info see http://www.open-rsc.org , http://www.youcann.org or > my site running on this computer at > http://speccyverse.homedns.org/bt/orsc.htm .I hope to be able to get an > ARM Linux box to run a DNS server for this and other domains and point to > all alternative international generic TLDs. > > Another free ISP I have used is BT, I can give the details if you want. > I use NTL broadband at the moment and try to use their NTLWorlds servers > mail,news,DNS,web as little as possible because they are unreliable. I use > Sonow for backup and web hosting, which has unlimited file space within > reason. > -- > Tarquin Mills > RUNG (RISC OS Users, Norfolk Group) > http://speccyverse.homedns.org/rung/ (running on RISC OS) > New domain name coming soon http://***.***********.**.**/
