On 2008-01-13, Gunner wrote:

There is No..I repeat..NO DSL, Frame Relay etc etc available where I
live. The only Highspeed is Roadrunner (Time Warner) cable modem, and
costs $79 per month cause its not available without cable tv packages.

The CO supervisor has indicated that Verizon has no plans in the near
or distant future to install DSL in my town.

So there is no..I say again..no other alternative besides dialup.

Which brings us back to my rant about Linux and its ****ty handlng of
dialups. Some do very well, Xandros for example..most others hang
****.

And there is no easy way to tell what will and will not work. For the
end user, who is not a long term commandline unix/linux jockey..it
really sucks.
Which is why Im still having to use Winblows for most of my stuff.
That and wifi..which is still damned iffy with Linux, even with name
brand wifi products such as linksys

Frankly..I want the product to work. If I wanted to fiddle ****
around, Id be out in the shop making Stuff, or out on the range
perforating Stuff.

First of all, command line is the way to make things work very well
and to work all the time.

However, modern Linuxes have NetworkManager, which supports dialup. At
least that is the case about Ubuntu. I attest that it works and is
100% GUI based. It is a part of the distro.

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