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[OT] Dial-up Connections
I'm thinking of dropping my ISP. I don't really use their newsfeed (I
use the German one), and I have access to other sources of email addresses, but what I don't have is a connection other than the one provided by the ISP. Can anyone recommend a company that provides reasonably priced dial-up connections (dial-up is the only option) with numbers throughout the US? Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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Jeanne Hedge wrote:
I'm thinking of dropping my ISP. I don't really use their newsfeed (I use the German one), and I have access to other sources of email addresses, but what I don't have is a connection other than the one provided by the ISP. Can anyone recommend a company that provides reasonably priced dial-up connections (dial-up is the only option) with numbers throughout the US? Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com Greetings... I use SysMatrix.Net. They charge $10 / month for service and I do use their news feed. It's been quite reliable. I've been with them for over a year and have never had a problem that they didn't address quickly and efficiently. lal |
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Jeanne Hedge wrote:
I'm thinking of dropping my ISP. I don't really use their newsfeed (I use the German one), and I have access to other sources of email addresses, but what I don't have is a connection other than the one provided by the ISP. Can anyone recommend a company that provides reasonably priced dial-up connections (dial-up is the only option) with numbers throughout the US? One lookout is that some (like NetZero who runs the network for manyothers like BlueLight) pings your IP address from virtually every node in their network. What does this mean? Well,if you use a firewall it means you have to put up with all this OR else enable pings to the whole Net. Norm -- "The web has got me caught. I'd rather have the blues than what I've got." via Nat King Cole |
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Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 06:41:42 -0500, Norm wrote: Jeanne Hedge wrote: I'm thinking of dropping my ISP. I don't really use their newsfeed (I use the German one), and I have access to other sources of email addresses, but what I don't have is a connection other than the one provided by the ISP. Can anyone recommend a company that provides reasonably priced dial-up connections (dial-up is the only option) with numbers throughout the US? One lookout is that some (like NetZero who runs the network for manyothers like BlueLight) pings your IP address from virtually every node in their network. What does this mean? Well,if you use a firewall it means you have to put up with all this OR else enable pings to the whole Net. Norm What do they do if you have a firewall that actively rejects, or silently discards, the pings? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBQbHNBTMYPge5L34aEQLbvACfZpfTFCn4X0zsFI+TxhJvsY 31YLAAoOKc M887vmDCseWxXHZDHXPRXT5y =hgr4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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"John F. Eldredge" wrote:
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 06:41:42 -0500, Norm One lookout is that some (like NetZero who runs the network for manyothers like BlueLight) pings your IP address from virtually every node in their network. What does this mean? Well,if you use a firewall it means you have to put up with all this OR else enable pings to the whole Net. Norm I misspoke: Juno or Netzero own the network that several other ISPs use What do they do if you have a firewall that actively rejects, or silently discards, the pings? Apparently nothing different than if you withhold permission or deny the attempts: life goes on although it may be they will drop the connection after awhile under the assumption it's inactive - I don't know, I dropped Juno straightaway and during the install process for NetZero I saw it was the same gig so I never registered. BTW, I only used Ping as a simple illustration - they sent other packets as well which I ignored. The point being, once an IP address is open to packets it's open to hack - by the old datagram overflow as an example. Ping is a bit innocoulous, other thingies are not, especially if one has more complex dataports open. HTH, Norm -- "The web has got me caught. I'd rather have the blues than what I've got." via Nat King Cole |
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Jeanne Hedge wrote in message . ..
I'm thinking of dropping my ISP. I don't really use their newsfeed (I use the German one), and I have access to other sources of email addresses, but what I don't have is a connection other than the one provided by the ISP. Can anyone recommend a company that provides reasonably priced dial-up connections (dial-up is the only option) with numbers throughout the US? Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com I am on dial-up, but it's through my local phone company and therefore no help to you. We're sending ISP purrs, though! ------ Krista |
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