Dial up internet with dual connection?
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:07:09AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Earthlink are a nationwide network -- you can dial in from just about
> anywhere. Pay an extra $1 for each hour you're running a dual
> connection.
Do you have pointer to a HOWTO for dual connection? I am curios.
My reminder for people using multiple ISP is to make sure to use SMTP
relay provided by the ISP for sending mail. Most ISPs started blocking
SMTP connection to outside last 12 month. This is true for MSN, AOL,
Earthlink, ... etc. This is a good policy to prevent some SPAM.
BTW, Earthlink, Netcomm, and Mindspring shares many resources under
different brands. I am not sure about what happened with the corporate
merger thing but I can use SMTP relay of Mindspring from Eartlink
dial-up connected connection ;-) This one is easier to type.
Most large ISPs are not just nationwide but international. I used MSN
and AOL to connect from Japan. I heard MSN started to charge some
surcharge recently. Earthlink page say nothing about surcharge and have
many access points in Japan and other nations.
Nice thing about Earthlink is they list dial-up access numbers on their
web page so setting up system without using proprietary installer is
easy. (AOL and MSN start hiding easy access to these information)
Installer usually works on English version of windows so it can not even
be used on foreign language version without contaminating dll with English
version ;-(
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