Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:55:24 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: BCSFD204@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and "Free ISPs"? Message-ID: <38ACB49C.3C1B02DF@3-cities.com> References: <ee.17f9a68.25ddfcd6@aol.com>
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BCSFD204@aol.com wrote: > > It appears that the search engines are still down so... > Something strange is also going on with the new free Email I'm trying. If > this is double posted, sorry. > Anyway... > > My wife does not want to give up her AOL and I have not been able to talk her > into something better than dial-up AOLnet (e.g. Road Runner) where I can run > in the 'background' while she's doing her thing. :-| There isn't anything keeping you using AOL's poor throughput and download idiosyncrasies. What you do is get an ISP and then set the AOL program to access through the Internet. You either dial our or use an existing connection. You entering AOL through their back-door. Her program works just fine and anything you want to do will to. Not only that, it won't timeout with a line drop because she wasn't doing something on AOL every five minutes or what ever the inactivity timeout is. I use user-ppp on FreeBSD as my dialer and access AOL from one of my Windows 2000 Pro machines. If I want the line to stay up, I get my mail every three minutes and it will stay up for 8 hours, which is my ISP's limit for a connection. Kent > > Has anybody tried to use FreeBSD with one or more of the "Free ISPs"? I've > peeked at netzero but it only appears to work with Micro$oft Window$. > > I know this is a not an optimal solution but what's aguy to do when he can't > get 'funding'? > Cheers... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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