[gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-11 Thread Dale
Hi, Since I only use Linux, this is basically the only place I get help/advice so here I go. As some may know, I have been waiting on DSL for years here. Always being promised that it is coming but found out today, through a informal FCC complaint, that it is not coming any time soon. They

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 12 September 2008 02:51:21 Dale wrote: > Get a Yahoo email account and pay for POP access, about $20.00 a year I > think.  I think this will make it so that I never have to change email > addresses when I switch ISPs and will get the same service regardless of > who I connect to the inter

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 September 2008 02:51:21 Dale wrote: Get a Yahoo email account and pay for POP access, about $20.00 a year I think. I think this will make it so that I never have to change email addresses when I switch ISPs and will get the same service regardless of who I c

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 12 September 2008 09:39:25 Dale wrote: > So Gmail has free POP access?  I like to keep my email locally like I do > with AT&T.  So far I have saved almost 27,000 emails from this list > alone.  I'm a pack rat.  LOL gmail has pop - you can leave the mails on the srever, remove them. imap

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 September 2008 09:39:25 Dale wrote: So Gmail has free POP access? I like to keep my email locally like I do with AT&T. So far I have saved almost 27,000 emails from this list alone. I'm a pack rat. LOL gmail has pop - you can leave the mails on the

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-12 Thread Robert Bridge
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:42:09 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 12 September 2008 02:51:21 Dale wrote: > > Get a Yahoo email account and pay for POP access, about $20.00 a > > year I think.  I think this will make it so that I never have to > > change email addresses when I

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-12 Thread Dale
Robert Bridge wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:42:09 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 12 September 2008 02:51:21 Dale wrote: Get a Yahoo email account and pay for POP access, about $20.00 a year I think. I think this will make it so that I never have to change ema

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-12 Thread Patric
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:51:21 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Dale, > After getting things switched over, I hope this will make things > easier in the future if I need to switch ISPs or something. My > questions are: 1: Does anyone know of a reasonably priced dial-up ISP > that does not

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-13 Thread Christian Franke
On 09/12/2008 12:55 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:42:09 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 12 September 2008 02:51:21 Dale wrote: Get a Yahoo email account and pay for POP access, about $20.00 a year I think. Use Gmail rather. It's cheaper - can't get ch

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 Sep 2008, at 09:28, Christian Franke wrote: ... I use Yahoo (with POP) only because I do not want my email address to change. What has to be added about this: getting a POP or SMTP connection with SSL as transport is kind of gambling on Yahoo's servers, at least in Germany. Get an

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-21 Thread Eric Martin
Dale wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: >> Dale wrote: >>> Hi again, >>> >>> Same topic, same thread. Cool huh? >> >> [snip] >> >>> Anybody know of any problems with these folks? Somebody see something I >>> missed? Oh, $9.95 is a lot better than $22.95. I noticed that right >>> away. >> >> Are they mon

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-21 Thread Dale
Eric Martin wrote: Dale wrote: I have thought of having my own site and stuff but being on dial-up just takes ALL the fun out of it. The dial-up out here sucks even on dial-up standards. I get 24Kb which is about 3KBs/sec. I plan to go talk to the cable company in a local town to see if the

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 21 September 2008 13:32:03 Dale wrote: > > Dale, do you get good cell phone reception out by you?  You can get a > > sprint aircard and a linksys router that has a pcmcia adapter in it to > > split the signal.  It's not blazing fast but @ 60/month it's way better > > than dialup.  BTW, I'

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-21 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2008 13:32:03 Dale wrote: Dale, do you get good cell phone reception out by you? You can get a sprint aircard and a linksys router that has a pcmcia adapter in it to split the signal. It's not blazing fast but @ 60/month it's way better than dialu