Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

[Wilko Fokken <wfokken@web.de>]

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 07:50:33PM -0500, Indulekha wrote:

> I live in a very remote rural area, so dialup is my only option.
> Someone else suggested wvdial, which works and is good, but I prefer 
> to use pppconfig to create the connection, pon/poff to start/end it, 
> and pppstatus so I can see how many curse words and which ones are 
> appropriate when waiting for things to download. 
> 
>  Indulekha 

Moin,

I am living the same way in rural Germany.

With Lenny, using 'pppconfig', I am having no problems with dialup
connections, except:

 After running 'pppconfig' to install a new dialup connection to a
 provider, I need to enter the directory

    /etc/ppp/peers/

 and have to change the group of my new dialup entries to 'dip':

	chown root:dip <provider>

--------------------------------


Unfortunately, I can't find a provider anymore, who provides a constant
dialup connection: They all switch their connection parameters regularly,
so that a cheap dialup connection suddenly turns into a altered connection
with costs up to 15 cents/min.

Therefore I wrote some shell scripts in order to protect myself from
monetary hassle relying on data given under

 www.teltarif.de


As my shell scripts qualify as "private-alpha", I put just a few lines
here to give an overview of actual cheap German dialup connections:

#############################################################################
#! /bin/sh

# Get an overview of cheap dialup connections in Germany from www.teltarif.de
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# (Note: requires an already working internet access)

# (dialup connection online?)
if [ -f /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then
	wget -q -O - www.teltarif.de/db/res-inet.html?zs=jetzt | \
	html2text -nobs | tee /tmp/teltarif-all.txt

	cat /tmp/teltarif.txt | cut -d\  -f2- > /tmp/teltarif.cut

	recode lat1..UTF-8 /tmp/tel*

	clear
	head -n 100 /tmp/teltarif-all.txt | tail -n 36; echo
	ls -l /tmp/teltarif-all.txt

else
	echo
	echo "No dialup connection online"
	echo
fi
#############################################################################



Good Lucks, Germans!

(or you pays your bucks, Hermann)


Greetings, Wilko

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