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From: Stan Barr <stanb_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Tue Sep 14 12:45:50 2004

Hi,

Ron Hudson <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net> said:
>
> On Sep 14, 2004, at 1:34 AM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>
> > Ron Hudson wrote:
> >
> >> Too bad the phone company (sbc) doesn't make a slow dsl available, no
> >> faster
> >> than my modem but always on and shareable.. that's what I miss most.
> >
> > Dial-up is shareable, but it can be pretty slow if you do so. Look at
> > one of the single-floppy firewall Linux distros out there. I've had
> > pretty good results from freesco (http://www.freesco.org) - easy to
> > configure, and pretty solid in operation.
> >
> > Gordon.
> >
>
> You would still have to dial up every time you want on. It only takes a
> moment to dial up, but I find it changes my web browsing habits anyway.
> I wonder what the phone company would do if a local call lasted more
> than a few hours... (number of days..)
>
> I'll check out freesco, do you have to tell it when you want it to dial
> out?

No, diald takes care of that, dialing out on demand when access is needed.
Freesco acts as a nice simple print server too.

-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Tue Sep 14 2004 - 12:45:50 BST

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