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On Monday 21 February 2005 01:28 pm, Peter C. Lai wrote:
> I need a temporary 56K providor until I get broadband installed at a
> new location. Do any of the commercially advertised ones (netscape,
> netzero, peoplepc, earthlink) support using regular PPP, or am I
> forced to use their dialer in win32? This is obviously important in
> determining if such a providor can be used in freebsd.
> TIA
> pete

Been last summer I was still using ppp dialers.  Earthlink was no 
problem, always worked well.  Netzero was worthless.  Don't know about 
any other national providers.