dial up ISP recommendations

[Jim Ray]

Portbridge has always done right by me since 1996.

http://www.portbridge.com

They're the local folks.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Mack NA3T [mailto:jmack@wm7d.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:23 AM
> To: ncsa-discussion@ncsysadmin.org
> Subject: dial up ISP recommendations
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> I'm looking for a dialup ISP.
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> I have to have:
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> 	o news:
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> I'd like:
> 	o access from anywhere in the US, but Chapel Hill will do right
> now.
> 	o competent polite service.
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> I'd expect them to have their own ntp server but no-one has any idea
what
> this is and I've given up.
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> I had IBM for a while, but you had to be running windows and download
> their software to sign on. I could handle that. However they changed
> their hardware one day and I couldn't connect any more. IBM would have
> none of it and I had to get a BIOS upgrade in my modem to get back on.
> End of IBM.
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> I phoned up earthlink this morning to sit on hold while advertisements
> were blasted at me. The sales people had no idea what news: was and
> switched me through to the tech people who told me that the sales
people
> could tell me about it. When I said I'd just done that, the tech
person
> admitted that news wasn't reliable and they had no idea which groups
they
> carried.
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> I'm looking for dial up so I can do this anywhere and because because
of
> the problems with higher speeds eg they make you buy the router, but
they
> keep the passwd (if they want the passwd, then they can keep ownership
of
> the router too), and the router is no good if you change ISP.
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> 	Thanks Joe
> --
> Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina
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