dial up ISP recommendations

[Chris MacLeod]

Try http://www.funport.com

They are based out of florida but basically resell uunet dailup (and 
maybe 1 or 2 other providers)

So you get the pops of uunet with better support from a smaller more 
personable company.

We used them at my last job and didn't have any problems.

Stick

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

>I'm looking for a dialup ISP.
>
>I have to have:
>
>	o news:
>
>I'd like:
>	o access from anywhere in the US, but Chapel Hill will do right
>now.
>	o competent polite service.
>
>
>I'd expect them to have their own ntp server but no-one has any idea what
>this is and I've given up.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>	Thanks Joe
>  
>

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